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.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.