"It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant."

"specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."

"Vanity is a very widely spread trait and probably nobody is entirely free of it. Certainly, among scholars and academic circles it is kind of an occupational disease. Nevertheless, especially for a sc…"

"It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true."

"The Protestant ethic was the foundation of modern rational capitalism."