"Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”

“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”

“He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.”

“The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.”

“When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.”

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.”

“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.”