Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.