Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.