Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.