Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

The only consistent people are the dead

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge