Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two..

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them..

I have the courage to be mistaken..

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow..

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form..

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite..

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study..

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk..

The more certain our knowledge the less we know..

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can….

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed..

The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his….

Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know….

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought..

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures..

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great..

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion..

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die..

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights..