In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.