Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

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.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.