A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.