Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.