Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

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

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

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

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.

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality