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

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

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

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.

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

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