By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.