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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.

Nothing More Can Be Attempted Than To Establish The Beginning And The Direction Of An Infinitely Long Road. The Pretension Of Any Systematic And Definitive Completeness Would Be, At Least, A Self-illusion. Perfection Can Here Be Obtained By The Individual Student Only In The Subjective Sense That He Communicates Everything He Has Been Able To See.

Gratitude, As It Were, Is The Moral Memory Of Mankind. In This Respect, It Differs From Faithfulness By Being More Practical And Impulsive: Although It May Remain, Of Course, Something Purely Internal, It May Yet Engender New Actions. It Is An Ideal Bridge Which The Soul Comes Across Again And Again, So To Speak, And Which, Upon Provocations Too Slight To Throw A New Bridge To The Other Person, It Uses To Come Closer To Him.

Music And Love Are The Only Accomplishments Of Humanity Which Do Not, In An Absolute Sense, Have To Be Called Attempts With Unsuitable Means.

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