Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs