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

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

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

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

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.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.