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

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

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.