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21 " The more ideology becomes pacifistic, the more militaristic become the ideologists. "
― Helmuth Plessner , Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
22 " In nature all things are close to or distant from each other. The psychological world knows first the intermediate region of distance seducing to nearness, nearness pressing towards distance, of an irreconcilable closeness-distance. "
23 " Earthly love and heavenly love irreconcilably oppose each other ... No mediation exists between the law of the public sphere and the willingness to be without restraint; between the two spheres there is nothing - to be sure, the positive nothing, the nothing of freedom. "
24 " Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he is rooted ... in the infinite and, thus, if a secret or open mourning never leaves him - the homesickness of one banished to finitude - so the knowledge, which belongs to the effect of limitations, gives the resignation a consoling, indeed, a cheerful character. Life closes itself around a circle. Every thing points to its place and a glimpse in the space of nature reveals the law of modesty. Separation is necessary so that unification can demonstrate itself; longing is necessary so that silence does not become rigid. "
25 " All life with others carries the germ of the capacity of dissolution because souls are more than what they factually are. "
26 " Only what is mysterious, undiscovered, and veiled attracts us; only what is hidden radiates magic that promises untold possibilities. "