Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.