The main thing is to know something and to say it.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.