Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
A man is entitled to a few secrets.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!