English Translation

181.) ind they can never be fully learned from books. I repeat: no great politics could be spent without politicians, who were not at the same time distinguished psychologists and true, experienced practical people. The politician is the politician and should be philosopher and his politics should be philosophy. As a scientist, the politician discovers the nature of social reality, analyses it, defines it, and determines what is what exists. As an artist, he processes this and prepares the change of what exists, adapts the existing social realities of the new development, assists his work in this development and gives it the further direction into the future. As a philosopher, and especially as a philosopher of history and a moralist, he must trace and explain in what direction and by what material or spiritual, ideal or practical means he should bring about or enforce the changes in political social life. And I immediately remind you that being a scientist, philosopher and moralist in politics means having a firm and clear, scientifically and morally founded conviction and defending it consistently and courageously, having a solid, unshakable, iron character, i.e. do not be afraid, brave and honest, objective, not selfish, dispassionate and therefore dignified. This means that the democratic politician should not be an empty, superficial opportunist or cynical saliva tasty, no confessor of the running Maochiavel-