There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
Triumph cannot help being cruel.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.