People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on, "an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".

Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.