The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

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

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.