1. “The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies…. Subjective reason conforms to anything.”
2. “Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.”
3. “Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.”
4. “Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.”
5. “Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to…. Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”
6. “The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”
7. “When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.”
8. “Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity.”
9. “Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and meditate.”
10. “The Revolution won’t happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.”
