Hope Is Not A Feeling Of Certainty

The Attempt To Devote Oneself To Literature Alone Is A Most Deceptive Thing, And ... Often, Paradoxically, It Is Literature That Suffers For It.

Anyone Who Takes Himself Too Seriously Always Runs The Risk Of Looking Ridiculous; Anyone Who Can Consistently Laugh At Himself Does Not.

The Previous Regime ... Reduced Man To A Means Of Production And Nature To A Tool Of Production. Thus It Attacked Both Their Very Essence And Their Mutual Relationship. It Reduced Gifted And Autonomous People To Nuts And Bolts In Some Monstrously Huge, Noisy, And Stinking Machine.

The Truth Is Not Simply What You Think It Is; It Is Also The Circumstances In Which It Is Said, And To Whom, Why, And How It Is Said.

There Can Be No Doubt That Distrust Of Words Is Less Harmful Than Unwarranted Trust In Them. Besides, To Distrust Words, And Indict Them For The Horrors That Might Slumber Unobtrusively Within Them - Isn’t This, After All, The True Vocation Of The Intellectual?