We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

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.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!