What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

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

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.