A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.