It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it—not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Book IV

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. Crime And Punishment

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