The More Certain Our Knowledge The Less

The East Knew And To The Present Day Knows Only That One Is Free; The Greek And The Roman World, That Some Are Free; The German World Knows That All Are Free. The First Political Form Therefore Which We Observe In History, Is Despotism, The Second Democracy And Aristocracy, The Third, Monarchy.

The Catholics Had Been In The Position Of Oppressors, And The Protestants Of The Oppressed

War Is Progress, Peace Is Stagnation.

Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deducted From It.

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.