"The individual is a point of intersection of infinite lines of influence."

"Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up."

"The meaning of life is not to be found in life itself, but in the forms of life."

"Just as soon as the lower classes begin to copy their style, thereby crossing the line of demarcation the upper classes have drawn and destroying the uniformity of their coherence, the upper classes t…"

"The tragedy of the modern individual is that he is too much himself and not enough of the world."