

“The bourgeois intellectual neither fights nor works.”
― Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
― Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

“Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.”
― VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE
― VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”
― The Crisis
― The Crisis

“It is precisely to the organization and the ‘humanization’ of its free time that future humanity will have to devote its efforts. (Did Marx himself not say, in repeating, without realizing it, a saying of Aristotle’s: that the ultimate motive of progress, and thus of socialism, is the desire to ensure a maximum of leisure for man?)”
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