Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

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

By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.

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

The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.