“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”

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

“Education is the art of making man ethical.”

“I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.”

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”

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

“Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.”

“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.”

“World history is a court of judgment.”

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”