Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

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

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.