“A man’s 30s go about quicker than his 20s, his 40s go quicker than his 30s, and so on, as if time is genuinely accelerating towards a man’s expiration date.”

“It is free to think, answer, and base its actions on the deliberations of an uncorrupted mindset.”

“How a man feels or thinks in one moment is predicated upon the foundation of what that hapless infant learned by rote decades before.”

“An intelligent man saves energy when he recognises the essential and exercises discipline by avoiding the inessential and therefore superfluous.”

“The emotional side of a man that sways towards unrealistic ideals of bubbly optimism is simply at odds with the real world.”

“There is hardly any room for actual thinking and retrospective learning because his beliefs are on a constant lookout for reassurances.”

“A man encounters conditions and circumstances that upset his expectations and so immediately induce a state of emotional and instinctive frenzy.”

“It is an intentional and intimate anchoring of the limbs of his entire being to his immediate conditions.”

“…he believes as it moves him from one institution to the next that he advances by his own merit, even though in reality the conveyer belt is doing all the work.”

“Plant enough of these various traits within that veiled up land of hidden qualities and one’s life has all it requires to happen completely automatically.”