I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.