Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits / quote 39 of 58

The less men are bound by tradition, the greater is the inner activity of motives

Age of Comparison.—The less men are bound by tradition, the greater is the inner activity of motives, the greater, correspondingly, the outer restlessness, the promiscuous flow of humanity, the polyphony of strivings. Who now feels any great impulse to establish himself and his posterity in a particular place?

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