It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.