In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.