It was the first rift in my father’s sanctity, it was the first nick in the pillars on which my childish life had rested, and which every human being must destroy before he can become himself. It is of these experiences, invisible to everyone, that the inner, essential line of our destiny consists. That kind of rift and nick closes over again, it is healed and forgotten, but in the most secret chamber of the mind it continues to live and bleed. Demian

"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." The Analects of Confucius

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. Book VIII

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. the Revolt of the Masses