The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.