The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

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

Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.