Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.