“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”
“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off”
“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”
“Closeness isn't just an absence of distance, it means actively eliminating it.”
“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only absolute.”
“For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”