Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.