What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.