“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”

“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”

“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”

“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”

“The thin line between life and death is still under construction.”

“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it but it takes brains to build a house. ”

“The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built ...”

“There are no proofs. There are only agreements”

“Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoni...”

“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convincedtoo eagerly in my viewthat the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible PAP category. From this, as we shall see, the...”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate ...”