A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.