Social Life Comes From A Double Source,

From Top To Bottom Of The Ladder, Greed Is Aroused Without Knowing Where To Find Ultimate Foothold. Nothing Can Calm It, Since Its Goal Is Far Beyond All It Can Attain. Reality Seems Valueless By Comparison With The Dreams Of Fevered Imaginations; Reality Is Therefore Abandoned.

Sadness Does Not Inhere In Things; It Does Not Reach Us From The World And Through Mere Contemplation Of The World. It Is A Product Of Our Own Thought. We Create It Out Of Whole Cloth.

Man Could Not Live If He Were Entirely Impervious To Sadness. Many Sorrows Can Be Endured Only By Being Embraced, And The Pleasure Taken In Them Naturally Has A Somewhat Melancholy Character.

Men Have Been Obliged To Make For Themselves A Notion Of What Religion Is, Long Before The Science Of Religions Started Its Methodical Comparisons.

The First And Most Basic Rule Is To Consider Social Facts As Things.