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

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.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.