History Is At Once Freedom

If You Beat Your Head Against The Wall, It Is Your Head That Breaks And Not The Wall.

This Is Really The Common Mentality Of Prisoners: They Read With Great Attention All The Articles That Deal With Illnesses And Send Away For Treatises And "be Your Own Doctor" Or "emergency Treatments" And End Up By Discovering That They Have At Least 300 Or 400 Illnesses, Whose Symptoms They Are Experiencing.

Pessimism Of The Spirit; Optimism Of The Will.

How Many Times Have I Wondered If It Is Really Possible To Forge Links With A Mass Of People When One Has Never Had Strong Feelings For Anyone, Not Even One's Own Parents: If It Is Possible To Have A Collectivity When One Has Not Been Deeply Loved Oneself By Individual Human Creatures. Hasn't This Had Some Effect On My Life As A Militant--has It Not Tended To Make Me Sterile And Reduce My Quality As A Revolutionary By Making Everything A Matter Of Pure Intellect, Of Pure Mathematical Calculation?

Common Sense Is Not Something Rigid And Stationary, But Is In Continuous Transformation, Becoming Enriched With Scientific Notions And Philosophical Opinions That Have Entered Into Common Circulation. 'common Sense' Is The Folklore Of Philosophy And Always Stands Midway Between Folklore Proper (folklore As It Is Normally Understood) And The Philosophy, Science, And Economics Of The Scientists. Common Sense Creates The Folklore Of The Future, A Relatively Rigidified Phase Of Popular Knowledge In A Given Time And Place.