Illuminations

But, as Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order.

And no society can properly function without classification, without an arrangement of things and men in classes and prescribed types. This necessary classification is the basis for all social discrimination, and discrimination, present opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, is no less a constituent element of the social realm than equality is a constituent element of the political.