Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!

Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.

I think if you don't trust in yourself, it helps to trust in something else.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.