Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

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

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

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.