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.

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

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

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.