The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.