To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

I find myself only by losing myself.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Find out what the customer wants and then make it better.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.