Sublime

And at this point the realization came upon me that everyone has an “office,” a charge. But to no one is it permitted to choose his office for himself, and to discharge it as he likes. It was wrong to want new gods, it was entirely wrong to wish to give the world anything. A man has absolutely no other duty than this: to seek himself, to grope his

We are only too glad to leave it to those brave teachers out there to pay our debt to the world by their self-sacrificing work, and so more or less justify the privileges we enjoy, we Glass Bead Game players, astronomers, musicians, and mathematicians.

Hermann Hesse, rebelle à toute forme d’autorité, n’a jamais cessé d’être préoccupé par les problèmes d’éducation. De ce point de vue, son œuvre manifeste une éclatante unité. Il s’agit toujours de héros à la recherche d’eux-mêmes, s’interrogeant sur la meilleure manière de mener sa vie et d’atteindre l’accord avec la création tout entière. Hermann

THE JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH

Only one thing I could not do: Discover the dark, concealed aim within me and make up my mind, as others did—others, who knew well enough whether they wanted to be professors or judges, doctors or artists. They knew what career to follow and what advantages they would gain by it. But I was not like that. Perhaps I would be like them some day, but h

To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I’m only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect.”