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Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend QUOTES

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend QUOTES

41 " You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

42 " Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

43 " The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. Sinclair, the majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

44 " (We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution as far back as the fish and even much further, so we bear everything in our soul that once was alive in the soul of men. Every god and devil that ever existed, be it among the Greeks, Chinese, or Zulus, are within us, exist as latent possibilities, as wishes, as alternatives. If the human race were to vanish from the face of the earth save for one halfway talented child that had received no education, this child would rediscover the entire course of evolution, it would be capable of producing everything once more, gods and demons, paradises, commandments, the Old and New Testament. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

45 " There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time. It was like a bad dream. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

46 " كنت أشتاق شوقاً حقيقياً لأن أعيش بشكل حقيقي و لو لمره واحده, أن أعطي شيئاً من نفسي للعالم, أن أدخل في علاقه و معركه معه "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

47 " The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

48 " The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

49 " Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

50 " Der Vogel kämpft sich aus dem Ei. Das Ei ist die Welt. Wer geboren werden will, muss eine Welt zerstören. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

51 " I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

52 " I like listening to music, but only the kind you play, absolute music, the kind that makes you feel that someone is rattling at the doors if heaven and hell. I like music very much, I think, because it's so unconcerned with morality. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

53 " Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

54 " One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

55 " بیش از یک قرن اروپا کاری جز ساختن ماشین نکرد. اکنون، مقدار دقیق باروتی که برای کشتن آدمی لازم است را می داند، اما نمی داند چطور یک ساعت خوشبخت باشد. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

56 " Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

57 " That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

58 " I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world, that the loss of its bright colors was an inseparable part of the loss of my childhood, and that, in a certain sense, one had to pay for freedom and maturity of the soul with the renunciation of this cherished aura. But now, overjoyed, I saw that all this had only been buried or clouded over and that it was still possible—even if you had become liberated and had renounced your childhood happiness—to see the world shine and to savor the delicious thrill of the child’s vision. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

59 " People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

60 " Only when I found myself sitting in front of you did I realize that my wish was only half fulfilled and that my sole aim was to sit next to you. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend