Ethics

of the masses, and the question arises whether perhaps the increasing acceptance of mass standards will in the course of time level down mental achievements to such an extent that technology itself will cease to develop and will therefore cease to exist. Technology and the masses arose and are confined within national communities, but they have an

The will of God is not a system of rules which is established from the outset; it is something new and different in each different situation in life, and for this reason a man must ever anew examine what the will of God may be.

Man feels remorse when he has been at fault; and he feels shame because he lacks something. Shame is more original than remorse.

The guilt of the apostasy from Christ is a guilt which is shared in common by the entire western world, however greatly the degree of the offence may vary. The justification and the renewal must therefore likewise be shared in common by the whole of the west. No attempt can succeed which aims at saving the west while excluding one of the western na

There are two kingdoms which so long as the world continues, must neither be mixed together nor yet be

The risen Christ bears the new humanity within Himself, the final glorious “yes” which God addresses to the new man. It is true that mankind is still living the old life, but it is already beyond the old. It still lives in a world of death, but it is already beyond death. It still lives in a world of sin, but it is already beyond sin. The night is

The dialectic of concealment and exposure is only a sign of shame.

There is no clearer indication of the idolization of death than when a period claims to be building for eternity and yet life has no value in this period, or when big words are spoken of a new man, of a new world and of a new society which is to be ushered in, and yet all that is new is the

Technology produces the masses and the masses demand an intensification of technology, yet at the same time technology itself is a matter for strong and mentally superior personalities. The engineer and the entrepreneur are not men