In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.

In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

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