Demian

By Hermann Hesse QUOTATION: I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn’t. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
ATTRIBUTION: Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Sinclair, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960).

QUOTATION: One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
ATTRIBUTION: Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Frau Eva, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960).

QUOTATION: In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
ATTRIBUTION: Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Sinclair, in Demian, prologue (1960).

QUOTATION: What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men—each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature—are shot down wholesale.
ATTRIBUTION: Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. The narrator (Sinclair), in Demian, prologue (1960).