Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
Hermann HesseIn each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Hermann HesseYou show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
Hermann Hesse...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
Hermann Hesse