War Is Progress, Peace Is

Every Philosophy Is Complete In Itself And, Like A Genuine Work Of Art, Contains The Totality. Just As The Works Of Apelles And Sophocles, If Raphael And Shakespeare Had Known Them, Should Not Have Appeared To Them As Mere Preliminary Exercises For Their Own Work, But Rather As A Kindred Force Of The Spirit, So, Too Reason Cannot Find In Its Own Earlier Forms Mere Useful Preliminary Exercises For Itself.

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 State Of Man's Mind, Or The Elementary Phase Of Mind Which He So Far Possesses, Conforms Precisely To The State Of The World As He So Far Views It

Reading The Morning Newspaper Is The Realist's Morning . One Orients One's Attitude Toward The Either By Or By What The World Is. The Former Gives As Much Security As The Latter, In That One Knows How One Stands.

The Learner Always Begins By Finding Fault, But The Scholar Sees The Positive Merit In Everything.