The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.