To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

The Reverence of God is grace to act right.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Recruit for the future not just for the gap.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.