The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before..

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always….

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe whic….

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for t….

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in….

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God..

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces..

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented..

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings..

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption whereve….

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them..

Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and sp….

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology..

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves..

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which….

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domes….

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act..

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody..

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges..

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof ….

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics,….