To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.