Milan

“Marx, when he leaped from philosophy into politics, carried the theories of dialectics into action, making political action more theoretical, more dependent upon what we today would call an ideology, than it ever had been before. Since, moreover, his springboard was not philosophy in the old metaphysical sense, but as specifically Hegel's philosophy of history as Kierkegaard's springboard had been Descartes' philosophy of doubt, he superimposed the "law of history" upon politics and ended by losing the significance of both, of action no less than of thought, of politics no less than of philosophy, when he insisted that both were mere functions of society and history.”
― Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future

“That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“[Ik wil] nogmaals herhalen dat ik wel de aanleiding voor de verwarring was, maar nooit een bijdrage aan de verwarring heb geleverd.”
― Karl Popper

“Blijkbaar word je deel van de omgeving door haar niet buiten te sluiten. Misschien wordt de omgeving juist deel van jou. Misschien is dat hetzelfde.”
― Roelof ten Napel, Constellaties