In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

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

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.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.