Nature should be visible spirit, spirit invisible nature.

Has creation a final goal? And if so, why was it not reached at once?... Because God is Life, and not merely Being.

Only he who has tasted freedom can feel the desire to make over everything in its image.

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Take and read.

-- Augustine of Hippo

I do not copy nature; I reveal it.

-- Caravaggio

Read, in the name of your Lord who created

-- Muhammad

History is the teacher of life.

-- Cicero

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

-- Ludwig van Beethoven