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.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

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

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

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.

Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.