Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob..

War is progress, peace is stagnation..

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

I have the courage to be mistaken..

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….

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

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

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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

The more certain our knowledge the less we know..

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

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

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….

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

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