Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or a not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'?

Written By Gustave Flaubert

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