“To think — really to think — surely this means a relinquishing of logic. It means living a new life. It means a permanent...

“Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and...

“Expression is like a step taken in the fog — no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sense...

“Except in dealing with commonplaces and catch phrases, one has to assimilate, imaginatively, something of another’s experience in order to tell him intelligently of...

“When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we are undergoing...

“Truly I say, man is a polluted stream.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There is a greater need to extinguish hubris than a blazing fire.” – Heraclitus, Fragments, B43

“I know only one Church: it is the society of men.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord

“Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society; those who desire to treat politics and morals apart from one another...

“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person...

“There is no greater waste of time than this, nor is there greater folly: that after attaining such a fleeting opportunity I do not...