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

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

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

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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.