The worldly view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding of the one thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding of the narrowness and meanness of mind which is exemplified in having
lost one's self — not
by evaporation in the infinite, but
by being entirely finitized,
by having become, instead of a self, a number, just one man more, one more
repetition of this everlasting Einerlei.