. . . it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
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 Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself. . . As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months. . . and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.