Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.