"Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?"

"She thought: How hard it is to change one’s life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives …"

"He who cries, "What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me," does not know even that."

"It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed."

"Metaphor is the reciprocal agent, the universalizing force: it makes possible the power to envision the stranger's he…"

"Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self."

"Like twinned with unlike is beauty's shock. And beauty...is eternal."

"What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we…"

"Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the pa…"

"We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution. ("Justice to Feminism")"