“Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?”

“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art ...”

“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, an...”

“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.”

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”

“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If...”

“It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, ...”

“As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with h...”

“Imitations are not flattering. Nobody likes feeling like an option,”

“Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.”

“Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.”

“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And Im writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum phys...”

“Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some sphere of being and so to limit it. To define is to set b...”

“War is progress, peace is stagnation”