The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

Beware the god who cannot laugh.

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.