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.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.

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.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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