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 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.

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.

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

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big - and then dream bigger.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.