Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it!

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

In football you never know, but generally speaking, I feel more than comfortable here [in Borussia Dortmund]. There' s no place on earth I'd rather be.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Obedience to authority saves many skins