The Frontier Between Public And Private Shifts

People Do Evil Things Because They Are Evil. Some People Are Evil In The Way That Some Things Are Coloured Indigo. They Commit Their Evil Deeds Not To Achieve Some Goal, But Just Because Of The Sort Of People They Are.

I Value My Catholic Background Very Much. It Taught Me Not To Be Afraid Of Rigorous Thought, For One Thing.

It Is Difficult To Think Of An Origin Without Wanting To Go Back Beyond It.

Writing Seems To Rob Me Of My Being: It Is A Second Hand Mode Of Communication, A Pallid, Mechanical Transcript Of Speech, And So Always At One Remove From My Consciousness.

Understanding Is Always In Some Sense Retrospective, Which Is What Hegel Meant By Remarking That The Owl Of Minerva Flies Only At Night.