"Denn wer erneuert, macht sich alle zum Feind, die aus der alten Ordnung ihre Vorteile zogen. In all jenen aber, denen die neue Ordnung nützen würde, findet er nur lasche Verteidiger."
"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism."