Because ideologues don't really understand the things they believe, they expect others to do the same.

If everyone were decent, tyranny would be impossible. If everyone were honest, genius would be unnecessary.

Genius is the tyranny of the mind. Tyranny is the genius of the heart.

Genius always doubts itself. That is its suffering and its passion.

A Transcendental Aesthetic

The point of a work of art must never be that the beholder become an artist.

"Science is the theory of the real." (Martin Heidegger)
Politics is the practice of the ideal.

The purpose of an idea is to make our work easier.

An ideologue will distort a fact in the service of an idea.