Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
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, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality...
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 for its existence.
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the vie...
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The common prejudice that love is as common as romance may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only...
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was...