Dignity belongs to the conquered.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.