Clearly, as has been said, we should diversify sources of energy. […] As Edward Lucas says in his book The New Cold War, we should avoid the Finlandisation, or what he rather unkindly called the Schröderisation, of western Europe.

Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.

Confucius did not listen to this warning, but taking his disciple Yen Hui to drive the carriage and putting Tzu-kung on his right, he set off to visit the brigand Chih. The brigand and his men happened at the time to be resting on the southern slopes of the T'ai-shan, and were enjoying a supper of minced human liver.

What a Tartar have I caught!