The Person Must Give Himself An External

What Experience And History Teach Is This - That Nations And Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Any Lessons They Might Have Drawn From It. Variant: What Experience And History Teach Is This - That People And Governments Never Have Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deduced From It.

In History, We Are Concerned With What Has Been And What Is; In Philosophy, However, We Are Concerned Not With What Belongs Exclusively To The Past Or To The Future, But With That Which Is, Both Now And Eternally — In Short, With Reason.

Truth Is Found Neither In The Thesis Nor The Antithesis, But In An Emergent Synthesis Which Reconciles The Two.

Poetry Is The Universal Art Of The Spirit Which Has Become Free In Itself And Which Is Not Tied Down For Its Realization To External Sensuous Material; Instead, It Launches Out Exclusively In The Inner Space And The Inner Time Of Ideas And Feelings.

What The English Call "comfortable" Is Something Endless And Inexhaustible. Every Condition Of Comfort Reveals In Turn Its Discomfort, And These Discoveries Go On For Ever. Hence The New Want Is Not So Much A Want Of Those Who Have It Directly, But Is Created By Those Who Hope To Make Profit From It.