“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Eve...”

“And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being without the substance and the dynamism of this sinful world of egois...”

“...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.”

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”

“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”

“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”

“I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.”

“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”

“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life...”

“Ideas are the source of all things”

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming...”

“Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.”