However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.