They’re afraid because they have never accepted themselves. A community consisting exclusively of people afraid of the unknown in themselves! They all feel that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they’re following outdated commandments; neither their religions nor their morality, nothing is suited to what we need. For a century and more, Europe has done nothing but study and build factories! They know exactly how many grams of powder it takes to kill someone, but they don’t know how to pray to God, they don’t even know how to be contented for an hour at a time. Demian

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. Ulysses

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Aristotle at Afternoon Tea

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Great Expectations