All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education..

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific..

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences..

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled..

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself..

What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes ….

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and unde….

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself..

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his ….

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's quest….

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human….

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I sha….

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from h….

When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events;….

The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate r….

The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the….

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more ….

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature..

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred becaus….

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher..