Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

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.

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

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

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.

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