The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.