Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.