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.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

World history is a court of judgment.

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