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

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

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.

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.

Kicks to the legs, they're not very cool. They're brutal.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Puerto Rico lacks resources, but that's not the fault of the U.S.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

How big can we get before we get bad?

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,” I said. “Keep it up!