It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.