Words are for those with promises to keep.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.