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

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

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

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

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.

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