1. “The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.”
2. “Fate operates when people give up.”
3. “When there is a propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them.”
4. “Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.”
5. “The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.”
6. “Prayer holds the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.”
7. “The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.”
8. “The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.”
9. “Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.”
10. “Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact.”