You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.