By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
From Hannah Arendt
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 new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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