Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.