“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”

“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”

“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”

“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”

“So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.”

“Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.”