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.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

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

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

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

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.