“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”

“The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance — is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man's genuine reality — of what is essentially and ultimately true and real — of spirit as the true and essential bein”

“Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”

“World history is a court of judgment”

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”

“We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.”