For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain, but in an inclination thereto of many days together ; so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. - Page 3

Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man. - Page 3

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was " (Ranke) . It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. - Page 3

For war consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known ; and therefore the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war as it is in the nature of weather. - Page 3

Marxism, the collective struggle to wrest a realm of Freedom from a realm of Necessity; only if they are grasped as vital episodes in a single vast unfinished plot... - Page 180

Pas-tiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language. But it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongside the abnormal tongue you have momentarily borrowed, some healthy linguistic normality still exists. - Page 108

Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the deadw\\\ not be safe from the enemy if he wins. - Page 3

We cannot possibly interpret rituals concerning excreta, breast milk, saliva and the rest unless we are prepared to see in the body a symbol of society, and to see the powers and dangers credited to social structure reproduced in small on the human body. - Page 131

He loves your Spectators mightily." C. No. 476. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Lucidus ordo. Hon. An Foot. 41. Method gives light AMONG my daily papers which I bestow on the public, there are some which are written with regularity and method, and others that run out into the wildness of those compositions which go by the name of Essays. - Page 3

In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it. - Page 3