Quotes by Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

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Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everyt — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time w — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certaintie — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Сè противречи едно на друго, сè протрчува едно крај друго, никаде нема сигурност. Сè може да се толкува вака, и сè може — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a s — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beaut — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come in — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Tegularius was a willful, moody person who refused to fit into his society. Every so often he would display the liveline — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no str — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
And those of us who trust ourselves the least,Who doubt and question most, these, it may be,Will make their mark upon et — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have been words such as th — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is d — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meanin — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the cave — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a posit — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties l — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no long — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game