Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

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

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.

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

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

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.