The First And Most Basic Rule Is

Each New Generation Is Reared By Its Predecessor; The Latter Must Therefore Improve In Order To Improve Its Successor. The Movement Is Circular.

A Mind That Questions Everything, Unless Strong Enough To Bear The Weight Of Its Ignorance, Risks Questioning Itself And Being Engulfed In Doubt.

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.

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.

There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The Name Which Does Not Possess A Historical Character.