Anton’s Reviews > Essays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46 > Status Update

“Conviction easily turns into self-defence and is reduced into rigidity, and this is inimical to life.”

“... how many things become bearable and even acceptable if we can give up certain prejudices and change our point of view.”

“A mind that is still childish thinks of the gods as meta­ physical entities existing in their own right, or else regards them as playful or superstitious inventions.”

“When we look back to the time before 1914, we find our- selves living in a world of events which would have been incon­ ceivable before the war. We were even beginning to regard war between civilized nations as a fable, thinking that such an ab­ surdity would become less and less possible in our rational, inter­ nationally organized world.”