In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

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.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.