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

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

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

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

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 connected, or connect the separate.

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 frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.