"The only important political distinction in the area is that between the use of force and the use of persuasion"

Richard Rorty. Contingency, irony, and solidarity

"La veritat amb prou feines ocupa més de tres línies"

Günter Grass

"Orwell, it may be said, came to respect the old bourgeois virtues because they were stupid -that is, because they resisted the power of abstract ideas. And he came to love things, material possessions, for the same reason"

Lionel Trilling

"Puesto que la amistad es incompatible con la verdad, el único diálogo que vale la pena es el que mantenemos con nuestros enemigos."

Emil Cioran

"Except for the nine firts months of its existence, no human being manages its affairs as well as a plant"

Bernard Shaw

"A problem well put is half-solved"

John Dewey

"Some ideas are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool"

George Orwell

"El que no és tradició és plagi"

Eugeni d'Ors

"There is no reason why an authentic prophet should be likable"

Harold Bloom