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.

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.

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.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I do believe in shooting the messenger.You know why? Because it sends a message.

I'm a woman of the '90s.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.