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

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.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

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

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.