The Challenge Of Modernity Is To Live

Is It Better To Work Out Consciously And Critically One's Own Conception Of The World And Thus, In Connection With The Labours Of One's Own Brain, Choose One's Sphere Of Activity, Take An Active Part In The Creation Of The History Of The World, Be One's Own Guide, Refusing To Accept Passively And Supinely From Outside The Moulding Of One' Own Personality?

The Crisis Consists Precisely In The Fact That The Old Is Dying And The New Cannot Be Born

What Are The "maximum" Limits Of Acceptance Of The Term "intellectual"?

From The Moment When A Subordinate Class Becomes Really Independent And Dominant, Calling Into Being A New Type Of State, The Need Arises Concretely, Of Building A New Intellectual And Moral Order, I.e. A New Type Of Society, And Hence The Need To Elaborate The Most Universal Concepts, The Most Refined And Decisive Ideological Weapons.

Driving Forward Is The Chief Characteristic Of Western Man Since The Sumerians. His Dread Triad Of Vices Is Property-holding, Voraciousness, And Lust.