I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
Barbarism is the antithesis of culture only within a structure of thought that provides us the concept.