In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.