In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

In the West, where our skin has turned White, we have ceased to recognise our kinship with animals.

I was very fond of them, if only they would have had me.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

A people's memory is history. A people without a history can grow neither wiser nor better.

[...] nicht das Amt die Vergangenheit zu richten, die Mitwelt zum Nutzen zukunftiger Jahre zu belehren, sondern blo? zu zeigen, wie es eigentlich gewesen ist.