There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way