When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.