Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

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

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

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