He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.