To wonder is to begin to understand.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.