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Book: The Glass Bead Game
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Pjesnik čiji nas stihovi ushićuju možda je bio tužan usamljenik a glazbenik neki sjetan sanjar, ali i tada njegovo djelo dijeli vedrinu bogova i zvijezda. Ono što nam umjetnik daje, to više nije njegov mrak, njegova patnja ili tjeskoba, to je kaplja čišste svjetlosti, vječite vedrine. Kad i cijeli narodi i jezici pokušavaju doprijeti do dubine svijeta, u mitovima, kozmologiji i raznim religijama, ono posljednje i najviše što mogu dostići, to je ta vedrina. Sjećas li se starih Indijaca, naš je stari waldzellski učitelj jednom o njima pričao: svijt patnje, razmišljanja, pokore, askeze; ali posljednja velika otkrića njegova duha bila su svijetla i vedra, vedar je smješak onih koji su preboljeli svijet i smješak Buddhe, vedri su likovi njegove dubokoumne mitologije.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Die Tage sehen wir, die teuren, gerne schwinden, Um etwas Teureres herangereift zu finden: Ein seltenes Gewächs, das wir im Garten treiben, Ein Kind, das wir erziehn, ein Büchlein, das wir schreiben.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Lament No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.Mold after mold we fill and never rest,We find no home where joy or grief runs deep.We move, we are the everlasting guest.No field nor plow is ours; we do not reap.What God would make of us remains unknown:He plays; we are the clay to his desire.Plastic and mute, we neither laugh nor groan;He kneads, but never gives us to the fire.To stiffen to stone, to persevere!We long forever for the right to stay.But all that ever stays with us is fear,And we shall never rest upon our way.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Ognuno di noi è soltanto un uomo, soltanto un tentativo, un incamminato. Ma si deve essere incamminati verso la perfezione, in direzione del centro, non della periferia.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Pripremi se na borbu, Josefe Knechte, već vidim da je počela.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Božansko je u tebi, a ne u pojmovima i knjigama.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible. They assiduously learned to drive automobiles, to play difficult card games and lose themselves in crossword puzzles-for they faced death, fear, pain, and hunger almost without defenses, could no longer accept the consolations of the churches, and could obtain no useful advice from Reason. These people who read so many articles and listened to so many lectures did not take the time and trouble to strengthen themselves against fear, to combat the dread of death within themselves; they moved spasmodically on through life and had no belief in a tomorrow.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible."
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
There is, after all, always something wonderful and touchingly beautiful about a young man, for the first time released from the bonds of schooling, making his first ventures toward the infinite horizon of the mind. At this point he has not yet seen any of his illusions dissipated, or doubted either his own capacity for endless dedication or the boundlessness of the world of thought.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
There was truly no pleasure and no honor in being a scholar or a writer. Those who entered the service of the rulers and devised slogans for them had jobs and livelihoods, but they suffered the contempt of the best among their fellows, and most of them surely suffered pangs of conscience also. Those who refused such service had to go hungry, live as outlaws, and die in misery or exile. A cruel, an incredibly harsh weeding out took place. Scientific research that did not directly serve the needs of power and warfare rapidly sank into decadence. The same was true for the whole educational system.
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
Perhaps you yourself have notions about the Glass Bead Game, expecting more of it than it will give you, or perhaps the reverse. There is no doubt that the Game has its dangers. For that very reason we love it; only the weak are sent out on paths without perils. But never forget what I have told you so often: our mission is to recognize contraries for what they are: first of all as contraries, but then as opposite poles of a unity. Such is the nature of the Glass Bead Game."
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Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game
It must be granted that many aspects of the intellectual life of that era showed energy and grandeur. We moderns explain its concomitant uncertainty and falseness as a symptom of the horror which seized men when at the end of an era of apparent victory and success they found themselves suddenly confronting a void: great material scarcity, a period of political and military crises, and an accelerating distrust of the intellect itself, of its own virtue and dignity and even of its own existence. Yet that very period, filled though it was with premonitions of doom, was marked by some very fine intellectual achievements,
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