If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark