“Without language, how can we tell anyone what we feel, or what we think?”
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“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
“Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.”
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do — or don't do.”
“I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.”
“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.”
“What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.”
“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given.”
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
“The present enshrines the past—and in the past all history has been made by men.”
“I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
“What should a society be, so that in his last years a man might still be a man?”