In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.