There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

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

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

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

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.