All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

The moment is the sole reality.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

Breath is your link to life

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?