What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.