Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

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.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.