The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers, that is, in principle, of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.