Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as
it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise," alone or in the company
of one who also wishes to better them self . . . . Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions . . . . Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just. Many are those who are entirely absorbed in militant politics, in the preparation for the social revolution. Rare, very rare, are those who, in order to prepare for the revolution, wish to become worthy of it.

Georges Philippe Friedmann (1902 CE-1977 CE), Georges Philippe Friedmann was a French sociologist and philosopher, known for his influential work on the effects of industrial labor on individuals and his criticisms of the uncontrolled embrace of technological change in twentieth-century Europe and the United States. He was the third president of the International Sociological Association (1956–1959).