I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism. "
History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.
The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
. . . the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun
Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
It should never be the goal of U. S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation. " Then what? What do we get out of that? We get - Trump is helping the approval ratings amongst Russians. How does that advance American national security interests?
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.