The past is never just the past. It is always a foundation for the present.

The question of technology is the question of the constellation of truth and untruth in which we live.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.