Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.