"The invasion of technique desacralizes the world in which man is called upon to live. For technique nothing is sacred…"

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

"God is for man the commonplace book where he registers his highest feelings and thoughts, the genealogical album into…"

"To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred."

"In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing."

"Why is it so important—what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own?"

"Don’t let anything remain sacred in a man’s soul—and his soul won’t be sacred to him. Kill reverence and you’ve kille…"

"The sacred interest is the uninteresting, because it is an absolute interest, an interest for its own sake, irrespect…"

"Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude tow…"