They are caught up in an endless quest for ever greater notoriety, more power, more money, more territory, and new forms of pleasure

"A human being is a bottomless pit which can never be truly satisfied by material possessions, social success, pleasure, or even great intellectual achievement. It should not surprise us, therefore, to see so many extremely intelligent and gifted people succumb to the worst kinds of aberration. Unable to find what they are looking for - unaware, even, that they are looking for something - they are caught up in an endless quest for ever greater notoriety, more power, more money, more territory, and new forms of pleasure, and to get these things they are ready to enslave or destroy all who stand in their way. But even when they achieve the goal they lusted after, they are still not satisfied, for they never succeed in filling the void that is like a yawning chasm within them. The only way to fill this void is by means of a spiritual ideal, as this spiritual ideal links us to a higher world from which we receive the only nourishment which can satisfy us."