Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

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

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.