Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.