One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
Indifference is the dead weight of history.
What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.
Man is above all else mind, consciousness – that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
What are the “maximum” limits of acceptance of the term “intellectual”?
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.
Every State is a dictatorship.
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.
Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Before puberty the child’s personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn’t know where to die.
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ’knowing thyself’as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.
History is at once freedom and necessity.
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.