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

"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…"

"speaking metaphysically, the only genuine hope is hope in what does not depend on ourselves, hope springing from humi…"

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