“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.