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

Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is created by mortal hands to serve mortals for a limited time as home.

We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.