Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

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.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.