A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

What man is, only his history tells.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.