How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.