Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

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

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

Let all your thinks be thanks.