“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.”

“He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.”

“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”

“The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.”

“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...”