There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.