Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?
Indifference is the dead weight of history.
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.