Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

We all carry fault within.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.