'Spiritually' we have not yet left the nineteenth century. When the new man has finally killed magic off and buried the rotting corpses of the old 'myths'--when he is on the way towards a coherent unity and consciousness, when he can begin the conquest of his own life, rediscovering or creating greatness in everyday life and when he can begin knowing it and speaking it, then and only then will we be in a new era.
Henri Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life, 1947, p. 129