Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.