We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

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

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

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 substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

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