The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.