I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

I can, therefore I am.