The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

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.

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

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

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