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

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.