What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

Swollen in head, weak in legs; sharp in tongue, but empty in belly.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing, soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing, and never know much.