Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.