The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

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

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is created by mortal hands to serve mortals for a limited time as home.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

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.