“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are ab...”

“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”

“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”