What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

The moment is the sole reality.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I would rather trust a person than a crowd.

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Global demand for dollars has supplanted demand for manufactured goods and services, resulting in multilateral trade deficits and loss of jobs at home.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Fundamentals make the market.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.