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

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

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.