There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.”“Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.