World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the falling of dusk.

The true is the whole.

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

I saw this world-spirit riding out through the city on reconnaissance.

The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

The pleasant life is produced not by endless drinking and revelry but by sober reasoning.

-- Epicurus

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world.

-- René Descartes

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

-- Immanuel Kant

Have the courage to use your own understanding!

-- Immanuel Kant