Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.