Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live 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.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.