The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.