Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.