"The mass is all that which sets no value on itself—good or ill—based on specific grounds, but which feels itself “jus…"

"The select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest, but the man who demands more of hi…"

"The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatur…"

"The division of society into masses and select minorities is, then, not a division into social classes, but into clas…"

"A characteristic of our times is the predominance, even in groups traditionally selective, of the mass and the vulgar…"

"When by 1890 a third generation assumes intellectual command in Europe we meet with a type of scientist unparalleled …"

"There exist, then, in society, operations, activities, and functions of the most diverse order, which are of their ve…"

"Today we are witnessing the triumph of a hyperdemocracy in which the mass acts directly, outside the law, imposing it…"

"The present-day writer, when he takes his pen in hand to treat a subject which he has studied deeply, has to bear in …"

"Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes. This faculty of wonder … is the one which leads t…"