As A Universal History Of Philosophy, The

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 Questions To Become Comprehensible.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

Man Is Always Something More Than What He Knows Of Himself. He Is Not What He Is Simply Once And For All, But Is A Process; He Is Not Merely An Extant Life, But Is, Within That Life, Endowed With Possibilities Through The Freedom He Possesses To Make Of Himself What He Will By The Activities On Which He Decides.

All Democracies Demand Common Public Education Because Nothing Makes People So Much Alike As The Same Education.

On The Question Of The World As A Whole, Science Founders. For Scientific Knowledge The World Lies In Fragments, The More So The More Precise Our Scientific Knowledge Becomes.