Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.