If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.