Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Life is fired at us point blank.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.