“The chitter-chatter of daily conversations and interactions between people becomes a superficial exchange of collected dead things.”

“They are much more lucid in relation to others, but towards themselves they are near-sighted and fairly deranged in their judgments.”

“There are many who will forgo this requirement; who would rather live in bubbles of delusion defined purely by positive and cheerful thinking.”

“The greater a man is consumed by dogmatic familiarity with respect to his perceptions, the less intelligence you can expect from him other than the cookie-cutter variety.”

“It is an act of disguised laziness, a form of lying to oneself, in which a man is fully complicit in the deception.”

“The alien element here is an ever-increasingly complicated society and the elaborate tapestry of competition it creates.”