The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge..

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences..

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a ….

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself..

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritua….

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment..

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality..

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direc….

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together..

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of….

Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed u….

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people..

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-me….

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure..

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her..

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves..

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects..

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it..

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things..

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism..

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason a….