The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has…

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.