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.

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

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?