Nothing exists except through language.

Being that can be understood is language.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

If you want a sense of purpose for experiencing pressures, use your knowledge of Jesus Christ's comforting, enlivening, energizing presence to be a comfort to others.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.