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.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

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

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

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

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

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.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

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

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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

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

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

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

World history is a court of judgment.

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

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

Worship is the communitys cult in its purest most inward most subjective form a cult in which objectivity is as it were consumed and digested while the objective content now stripped of its objectivity has become a possession of mind and feeling.

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

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

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

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

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

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

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.