but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.