1. “If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
2. “The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.”
3. “All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.”
4. “Indifference is the dead weight of history.”
5. “The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”
6. “History teaches, but has no pupils.”
7. “If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
8. “Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.”
9. “To tell the truth is revolutionary.”
10. “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
11. “Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.”
12. “What are the “maximum” limits of acceptance of the term “intellectual”?
13. “History is at one freedom and necessity.”
14. “The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of need to struggle as a principle of development.”
15. “I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn’t know where to die.”
