The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.