Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.