Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.