The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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Every past is worth condemning.
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Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the nobl...
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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them ...
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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The levelling of the European man is the great process which cannot be obstructed; it should even be accelerated. The necessity of cleaving gulfs, dis...
