The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.