The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

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

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

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 form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.