One who sets his heart on cleansing himself from the uncleannesses that beset men’s souls … becomes clean as soon as he consents in his heart to shun those counsels and brings his soul into the waters of pure reason.
“I am not an inventor of ideologies. I am not a thinker and have never aspired to be. Sometimes, within the context of an ideology I have an intuition and thus have sometimes anticipated the professional ideologues.”