Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

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

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.