The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.