No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not c….

Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and ….

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody le….

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they co….

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes..

One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all..

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can….

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guil….

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ….

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be a….

Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains boun….

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology an….

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians..

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil..

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to….

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible..

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magn….

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that….

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. ….

in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made condition….