History is at once freedom and necessity.

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

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

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

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

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

History is at once freedom and necessity.