No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

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

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.