With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.