In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.