Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

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

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.

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.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.