On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.