We exist within the question of God.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.