Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

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.

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

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

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.