The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

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.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.