'Up to our days a man's membership of the upper or lower classes has been crudely determined by whether or not he accepted money. At times false pride became conscious criticism.'

'Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.'

'We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are forced at every step into actions and words, into calculations th…

'True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.'

Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

It [the bourgeoisie] has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and left remaining no other nexus between man an…