The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

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

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.