Man is all the time outside of himself: it is in projecting and losing himself beyond himself that he makes man to exist; and, on the other hand, it is by pursuing transcendent aims that he himself is able to exist. Since man is thus self-surpassing, and can grasp objects only in relation to his self-surpassing, he is himself the heart and center of his transcendence. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Quietism is the attitude of people who say: "let others do what I cannot do." The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
Yes, we are on the way back, not by mere chance, not by a turn of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we planned it that way, and don't let anybody tell you differently.
And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
"Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.