1. “Every relationship between two individuals or two groups ill be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.”
2. “Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.”
3. “Man’s nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.”
4. “For, to a strange is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.”
5. “Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.”
6. “Direction is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.”
7. “Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.”
8. “The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.”
9. “The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.”
10. “Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.”
11. “The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.”
12. “Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.”
13. “Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.”
14. “He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.”
15. “Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.”
