Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.