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

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

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

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.