"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."

"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society."

"Conflict is designed to resolve divergent dualisms; it is a way of achieving some kind of unity."

"The tragic element of culture is that the objective spirit, once created, comes to stand over and against the subjective spirit, whose expression it is, and ultimately crushes it."

"The meaning of history is that it has no meaning."