When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.