The Challenge Of Modernity Is To Live

If You Think About It Seriously, All The Questions About The Soul And The Immortality Of The Soul And Paradise And Hell Are At Bottom Only A Way Of Seeing This Very Simple Fact: That Every Action Of Ours Is Passed On To Others According To Its Value, Of Good Or Evil, It Passes From Father To Son, From One Generation To The Next, In A Perpetual Movement.

Pessimism Of The Spirit; Optimism Of The Will.

It Indicates A Person Who Has Not Only Good Manners But Who Possesses A Sense Of Balance, A Sure Mastery Of Himself, A Moral Discipline That Permits Him To Subordinate Voluntarily His Own Selfish Interest To The Wider Interests Of The Society In Which He Lives. The Gentleman, Therefore Is A Cultural Person In The Noblest Sense Of The Word, If By Culture We Mean Not Simply Wealth Of Intellectual Knowledge But Also The Ability To Fulfil One's Duty And Understand One's Fellow Man By Respecting / Every Principle, Every Opinion, Every Faith That Is Sincerely Professed.

A Social Group Can, Indeed Must, Already Exercise 'leadership' Before Winning Governmental Power (this Is Indeed One Of The Principal Conditions For The Winning Of Such Power); It Subsequently Becomes Dominant When It Exercises Power, But Even If It Holds It Firmly In Its Grasp, It Must Continue To 'lead' As Well.

History Is At Once Freedom And Necessity.