Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.