If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.