The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.