The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.