But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. The true theater of history is therefore the temperate zone.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.