I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.
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.