The Highest That A Man

What Is Possible For Individual Man Is Impossible For The Masses.

If A Man Could Understand All The Horror Of The Lives Of Ordinary People Who Are Turning Around In A Circle Of Insignificant Interests And Insignificant Aims, If He Could Understand What They Are Losing, He Would Understand That There Can Only Be One Thing That Is Serious For Him - To Escape From The General Law, To Be Free. What Can Be Serious For A Man In Prison Who Is Condemned To Death? Only One Thing: How To Save Himself, How To Escape: Nothing Else Is Serious.

We Must Strive For Freedom If We Strive For Self-knowledge. The Task Of Self-knowledge And Of Further Self-development Is Of Such Importance And Seriousness, It Demands Such Intensity Of Effort, That To Attempt It Any Old Way And Amongst Other Things Is Impossible. The Person Who Undertakes This Task Must Put It First In His Life, Which Is Not So Long That He Can Afford To Squander It On Trifles.

Humanity Is Moving In A Circle. The Progress In Mechanical Things Of The Past Hundred Years Has Proceeded At The Cost Of Losing Many Other Things Which Perhaps Were Much More Important For It.

The Crowd Neither Wants Nor Seeks Knowledge, And The Leaders Of The Crowd, In Their Own Interests, Try To Strengthen Its Fear And Dislike Of Everything New And Unknown. The Slavery In Which Mankind Lives Is Based Upon This Fear.