The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.