The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.