These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

Ah, grief makes us precise!

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.

This is unbearable how I talk.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.