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

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

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: 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 in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

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 community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.