Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.