There Are Plebes In All Classes.

Regarding History As The Slaughter-bench At Which The Happiness Of Peoples, The Wisdom Of States, And The Virtue Of Individuals Have Been Victimized--the Question Involuntarily Arises--to What Principle, To What Final Aim These Enormous Sacrifices Have Been Offered.

What Experience And History Teach Is This - That Nations And Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Any Lessons They Might Have Drawn From It. Variant: What Experience And History Teach Is This - That People And Governments Never Have Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deduced From It.

The Person Must Give Himself An External Sphere Of Freedom In Order To Have Being As Idea.

In A True Tragedy, Both Parties Must Be Right.

Reason Is Just As Cunning As She Is Powerful. Her Cunning Consists Principally In Her Mediating Activity, Which, By Causing Objects To Act And Re-act On Each Other In Accordance With Their Own Nature, In This Way, Without Any Direct Interference In The Process, Carries Out Reason's Intentions.