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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Friends, the earth is barren, we must strew ample seeds that only a modest harvest prospers for us.
1 We seek everywhere the unconditioned, and always find only the conditioned.
2 To signify through sounds and tones is a remarkable abstraction. With three letters I signify God; and with a few strokes a million things. How easy is the manipulation of the universe, how vivid the concentration of the spiritual world! The theory of language is the dynamics of the spiritual world. A word of command moves armies, the word ‘freedom’ nations.
3 The world state is the body that the beautiful world, the social world, animates. It is the necessary organ of that world.
4 An apprenticeship is for the poetical youth, a university education is for the philosophical. Universities should be completely philosophical institutions. There should be only one faculty, the whole establishment organized for the awakening and effective practice of the power to think.
5 An apprenticeship in the proper sense is an apprenticeship in the art of living. Through planned, ordered experiments one learns its principles and acquires the capacity to act on them as one wishes.
6 We will never completely explain ourselves; but we will and can do more than explain ourselves.
7 Certain restraints are like the touch of a flute-player, who, to produce various tones, closes now this, now that opening, and who appears to make arbitrary chains of silent and sounding openings.
8 The difference between illusion and truth lies in the difference of their life-functions.
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