Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

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.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Taking advantage of me in my sleep, archangel?” --Gin

To wake up each morning is a miracle.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.