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

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

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

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

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

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