For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.