We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.