“To be sure, who is strong and who is weak? One-sided racial theories just as little as one-sided class theories here fail to make any advance. The opposition is not correctly expressed with contrasts such as between blond-black, Aryan-Semite, German-Roman, German-slave; nor is it expressed with the contrast between producer-worker, bourgeoisie-proletarian. Strong is whoever controls society [Gesellschaft] because he affirms it. Weak is whoever flees society [Gesellschaft] for the sake of the community because he denies society. ... Strong is whoever affirms the entire essential complex of society [Gesellschaft] for the sake of the dignity of the individual and the social whole; weak is whoever sacrifices dignity for brotherhood in the community.” DemocracySocietyStrengthWeaknessHumanismIndividualismAnti FascismAnti Communism Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Nature is at all times unequivocal; its secrets, so difficult to decode, lay open to the eye. It is otherwise with the fullness of being of the soul. It never exhausts itself as having come into existence; rather, it passes through this level of determination and exhaustion only to return again to a process of becoming, to a living actuality. From an unfathomable primordial source, interior being [innern], the soul's difficult-to-comprehend forms climb into the light of consciousness where they dissolve again like all genuine creations of the night. The soul is at all times ambiguous; before every attempt to unravel its secrets, it retreats back to the depths.” SoulBecomingHumanismBeingPotentialityIndeterminacy Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Dignity concerns at all times the person taken in his entirety - the unity of what lies inside and outside - and describes the ideal constitution to which one strives, but which is only too infrequently reached. The higher the person wants to reach, the harder it is for him to reach this idea; for, with the one-sidedness that results from concentration on a great theme he tears open a crevice between himself and his ambition.” AmbitionHumanismGoalsAspirationPotentialHuman DignityStriving Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Between the two poles of community - blood and ideal - stretches the enormous and, to a certain degree, indeterminate public sphere, which is not quite comprehensible in either political or economic terms and where the entire risk of the humiliation of human dignity is given.” HumanismHuman DignityPublic Sphere Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Only what is mysterious, undiscovered, and veiled attracts us; only what is hidden radiates magic that promises untold possibilities.” DarknessMagicMysteryPossibilityHumanismThe Unknown Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft