The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.