“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.”

“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.”

“Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.”

“Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.”

“It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.”

“It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.”

“We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.”

“Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places neve...”