Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means..

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know..

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the w….

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift….

Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out,….

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjecti….

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….

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

Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and defi….

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….

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release..

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered..

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although ….

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot ….

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connec….

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face o….

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by gett….

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

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

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor..

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fil….