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.

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

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

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

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.