“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”

“But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.”

“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

“Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there i...”

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.”

“When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch...”

“National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degr...”

“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

“A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.”