Criticism is toothless. If it had any real power to harm, the skunk would have been extinct by now.

Criticism is showing the object of criticism as beautiful, as magnificent. One has to love what they criticize and give it a new beauty, as 'good destruction requires love'.

Criticism is not denunciation, but working your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way back to that which he does not say in what he says, in order to extract something that still belongs to him, though you also turn it against him.

Criticism is best ignored — If it's untrue, disregard it; if it's unfair, keep from irritation; if it's ignorant, smile; if it's justified, learn from it.

Culture is that which, for the average person, appears to be remote, hovers over, and humiliates him.

Culture is that upon whose reflection we obtain a larger reservoir of ways of knowing.

Culture is tasked, as its primary function, to harness and control energy.

A Culture is not a scientific object. It is produced historically and is actively contested.

The Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.

Echo is being’s call of distress into the present.

Echo is that which, by exposing us to modernity’s deep distress, also launches the other beginning of philosophy.

Echo is the scream of forgotten being from amidst the reign of technology.

History is rooted in the future

History is that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

History is a bath of blood.

History is a picture book rather than a repertoire of notions.