The Intellectually Sophisticated Person Is Indifferent To

On The One Hand, Life Is Made Infinitely Easy For The Personality In That Stimulations, Interests, Uses Of Time And Consciousness Are Offered To It From All Sides. They Carry The Person As If In A Stream, And One Needs Hardly To Swim For Oneself.

Every Relationship Between Persons Causes A Picture Of Each To Take Form In The Mind Of The Other, And This Picture Evidently Is In Reciprocal Relationship With That Personal Relationship.

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 Fill In This Empty Place. That Is My Life.

The Calculative Exactness Of Practical Life Which The Money Economy Has Brought About Corresponds To The Ideal Of Natural Science: To Transform The World By Mathematical Formulas. Only Money Economy Has Filled The Days Of So Many People With Weighing, Calculating, With Numerical Determinations, With A Reduction Of Qualitative Values To Quantitative Ones.

Every Superior Personality, And Every Superior Performance, Has, For The Average Of Mankind, Something Mysterious.