The Valor That Struggles Is

Public Opinion Contains All Kinds Of Falsity And Truth, But It Takes A Great Man To Find The Truth In It. The Great Man Of The Age Is The One Who Can Put Into Words The Will Of His Age, Tell His Age What Its Will Is, And Accomplish It. What He Does Is The Heart And The Essence Of His Age, He Actualizes His Age. The Man Who Lacks Sense Enough To Despise Public Opinion Expressed In Gossip Will Never Do Anything Great.

The People Are That Part Of The State That Does Not Know What It Wants.

The Sublime In Art Is The Attempt To Express The Infinite Without Finding In The Realm Of Phenomena Any Object Which Proves Itself Fitting For This Representation.

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.

The Evident Character Of This Defective Cognition Of Which Mathematics Is Proud, And On Which It Plumes Itself Before Philosophy, Rests Solely On The Poverty Of Its Purpose And The Defectiveness Of Its Stuff, And Is Therefore Of A Kind That Philosophy Must Spurn