The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fic….

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it..

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil..

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed a….

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution..

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life proc….

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work..

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public..

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny..

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and al….

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hand….

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition..

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern tim….

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance….

If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sh….

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company..

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this c….

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it..

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the ….

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home..

Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and with….