The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.