. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.