We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

We exist within the question of God.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

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 happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

Fashion changes, but style endures.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.

To teach is great, but to inspire is divine.

There is no great; there is no small; in the mind that causeth all