"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."

"Indifference is the dead weight of history."

"Every State is a dictatorship."

"We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have t…"

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