Music And Love Are The Only Accomplishments

In Order To Accommodate To Change And To The Contrast Of Phenomena, The Intellect Does Not Require Any Shocks And Inner Upheavals; It Is Only Through Such Upheavals That The More Conservative Mind Could Accommodate To The Metropolitan Rhythm Of Events.

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.

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.

The Intellectually Sophisticated Person Is Indifferent To All Genuine Individuality, Because Relationships And Reactions Result From It Which Cannot Be Exhausted With Logical Operations.

Cities Are, First Of All, Seats Of The Highest Economic Division Of Labor.