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

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

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 relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.