Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.