The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.

哲学的任务不是解决矛盾，而是使它们可见。

The world is a cruel place, but it is also beautiful.