As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.