We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

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

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

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 spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.