Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.

I am not gone but merely walk within you.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.