Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

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

There is no true life within a false life.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.