What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.