By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.