Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

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.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

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.

Every State is a dictatorship.

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.

Sometimes, all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Good horses make short miles.

Happiness is a privilege.

Live dangerously and you live right.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.