Every thought is an afterthought.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.