When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.