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.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

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

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.