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

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.

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

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

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.