What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.