Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
Language was invented to ask questions.
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.