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.

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

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.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

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

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

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