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In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.

Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

The Contemplation Of This World Beckoned As A Liberation (...)the Road To This Paradise Was Not As Comfortable And Alluring As The Road To The Religious Paradise; But It Has Shown Itself Reliable, And I Have Never Regretted Having Chosen It.

Chess Holds Its Master In Its Own Bonds, Shackling The Mind And Brain So That The Inner Freedom Of The Very Strongest Must Suffer.

It Is Best, It Seems To Me, To Separate One's Inner Striving From One's Trade As Far As Possible. It Is Not Good When One's Daily Break Is Tied To God's Special Blessing.