Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.

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

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

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

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

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