Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.