Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.