Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

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.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.