The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.