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

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.