We never know what we are talking about.

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses: our knowledge consists, at every moment, of those hypotheses which have shown their (comparative) fitness by surviving so far in their struggle for existence, a competitive struggle which eliminates those hypotheses which are unfit.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.