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

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

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

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

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

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

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