The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.