parce que j'aime Sieyes (from Qu'est-ce que c'est le Tiers Etat?).

Talkers who lack ideas -- and there are a few of this sort -- drone on and on with nonsense about what they call the importance of practice and the uselessness or the perils of theory. ... Those who clutter conversation with the gibberish that I have just mentioned do not operate either on the practical or the theoretical plane, really. Why do they not pursue the wiser and more practical course of receiving enlightenment from the one, if their intelligence permits; or, at the least, deriving profit from the other by keeping quiet about what they can, privately, excuse themselves for not comprehending?