Book: Steppenwolf. Page 8

The person capable of understanding the Buddha with the idea of heaven and the depths of humanity ought not live in a world ruled by common sense, democracy and civic education.

The genius of the phenomenon is not so rare as we sometimes think, although not as often as you think literary historians, historians of countries, and especially the newspaper.

Each people have their own characteristics, their distinctive traits, each with their virtues and vices, each of your mortal sin.

Most people don't want to swim before you learn to swim. Isn't it witty? Of course, they don't want to swim! After all, they are created for sushi, not for the water. And of course, they don't want to think; they're born to live and not to think! Well, who thinks, who sees this as his main business, he may well succeed, but he still confuses land with water, and eventually drown.

A fun and varied game of humanity: self-deception, over disclosure of which India fought a thousand years is the same deception, and to enhance the gain which put the same amount of power in the West.