I have the courage to be mistaken.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

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.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

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.

The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

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.