It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

We exist within the question of God.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

Everything physical is a creation of time

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Make sure you control the radio on a long road trip. You don't want to listen to some old-fashioned music the whole time.

If not me then who? Confront evil!

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

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