In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.