I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in… — Hermann Hesse

Translation: If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.