What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts