Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.