These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are stru...ck left-handed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him... who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine o...il over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »