It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.