History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.