Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

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.

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.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.