Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

language is never neutral

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.