Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.