Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.