WednesdayMar 18, 2026
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less....
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence ... the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities ... than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Only one who is in pain really senses nothing but himself; pleasure does not enjoy itself but something beside itself.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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