History is at once freedom and necessity..

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

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust..

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits ….

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via i….

Every State is a dictatorship..

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, un….

Indifference is the dead weight of history..

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall..

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

To tell the truth is revolutionary..

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will..

The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these c….

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned..

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?.

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for ….

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the respons….

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….

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die..

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society….