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.

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.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.