"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…"

"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."

"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."

"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

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