Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

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.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

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