"Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the … - Hermann Hesse

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.