“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.”

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

“In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called cul...”

“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.”

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

“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.”