The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.