By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.