For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission of the intellectual who is truly a prophetto cry in the desert. The greatest of the prophets, Isaiah, made it notable, of course, when he spoke of himself as the voice of one "crying in the wilderness." Because the mission of the intellectual is to be the man who, from his desert, his basic solitudeand man is only man amid his truth, only himself when he is alonecries aloud to others and invites them to each into his own solitude.

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  • Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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