"The failing of contemporary criticism is double: Hand in hand with the suppression of aesthetic autonomy, one finds a…"

"Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages c…"

"The university ... must be contemptuous of public opinion because it has within it the source of autonomy—the q…"

"He who feels that in his inmost being he cannot be compared with others, will be his own lawgiver. For one thing is n…"

"From none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."

"Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control."

"There cannot be any politics of resistance, aesthetics of emancipation, or prose and poetry of agential autonomy in h…"

"We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational r…"

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lu…"

"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the grea…"