An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

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

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.