Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities ... than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence ... the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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