"There are today an increasing number of people whose awareness is, in the strict sense of the phrase, without a focus…"

"There can be no whole without a thought which grasps it as a whole; and this grasping of what is before the mind as a…"

"We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect."

"We ought to be able to see more clearly just for what reason the mass-man is so easily turned into a fanatic. What I …"

"The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our o…"

"It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, …"

"No doubt I shall be told: "In the immense majority of cases this is an illusion." But it is of the essence of hope to…"

"the world we live in permits - and may even seem to counsel - absolute dispair, yet it is only such a world that can …"

"The great pessimists in the history of thought [...] have prepared our minds to understand that despair can be what i…"

"And yet it is clear that the normal development of a human being implies an increasingly precise and, as it were, aut…"