We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don’t live with them.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

In this distancing, are aspects of our own reality as persons deeply concealed, and the concealment concealed? Are many professors of philosophy today afraid to reflect? I think so.

Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously. . . .

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.

Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.

I'm trying to see, when everything in this world conspires to prevent us from seeing.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.