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

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.

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.

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

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

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.