« Most people do not admit their feelings of fear, boredom, loneliness and despair—that is, they are oblivious to it, for a simple reason: our social pattern is such that the man who arrives is supposed not to be afraid of being bored, or of being alone. He must consider this world as the best; to have the best chance of social promotion, it must repress both fear and doubt, boredom and despair. Consciously many people feel hopeful when unconsciously they are desperate; the reverse is the exception. What is important in examining hope and despair is not essentially what people think about their feelings, but what they really feel. Behind the words and phrases they utter, one can detect their true feelings at the expression of the face, the way of walking, the ability to react with interest in front of what they have in front of their eyes and the absence of fanaticism they show when presented with a sensible argument. »

« Faith, according to the having mode, is the possession of a solution for which there is no rational evidence. It consists of formulations created by others and accepted because one is subject to others - usually a bureaucracy. It has a sense of certainty because of the real (or only imaginary) power of bureaucracy. It is the ticket that allows you to join a large group of individuals. It avoids the difficult task of thinking for yourself and making decisions. One becomes one of the beati possidents, the lucky holders of the only true faith. »

« Numerous studies have shown that children and adolescents are lazy because teaching materials are presented to them in a dry and cold way, unable to arouse real interest on their part; if pressure and boredom are removed, and the material is presented in a living form, the student's activity and initiative are mobilized in a remarkable way. »