Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.