We exist within the question of God.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

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

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

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?

Love is nourishment. Everything gets better with love.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Some people never get to go oversees they entire lives

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.