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

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.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.