I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Those who waste time eventually become wasted

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

Rich peoples kind words doesn't fill up the empty stomach of poor people

Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

If there's a best, I want to fight them.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.