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“Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“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

“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

“Es ist so gut, das zu wissen: daß in uns drinnen einer ist, der alles weiß, alles will, alles besser macht als wir selber.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Ja, man muß seinen Traum finden, dann wird der Weg leicht. Aber es gibt keinen immerwährenden Traum, jeden löst ein neuer ab, und keinen darf man festhalten wollen.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Nur das Denken, das wir leben, hat einen Wert.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“No one liked him, no one was on intimate terms with him... he was a good person but took no particular trouble to please anyone.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Wir reden zuviel", sagte er mit ungewohntem Ernst. "Das kluge Reden hat gar keinen Wert, gar keinen. Man kommt nur von sich selber weg. Von sich selber wegkommen ist Sünde. Man muss sich in sich selber völlig kriechen können wie eine Schildkröte.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Ich sehe, du denkst mehr, als du einem sagen kannst. Wenn das nun so ist, dann weisst du aber auch, dass du nie ganz das gelebt hast, was du dachtest, und das ist nicht gut. Nur das Denken, das wir leben, hat einen Wert.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“If religion has set up the proposition that we are sinners altogether, I set over against it the other: we are perfect altogether! For we are, every moment, all that we can be; and we never need be more.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Mensch, es spukt in deinem Kopfe!”
― Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

“Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Entitled or unentitled — that does not concern me, if I am only powerful, I am of myself empowered, and need no other empowering and entitling.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Jeff, I have here a report from your employer at the chocolate factory. It says that they gave you notice of termination. They were also wondering if you placed anything other than the prescribed ingredients into the batches of confections you were mixing.” Dahmer sat back quickly in surprise. “What do you mean? They think I put some body parts into the candy? What kind of monster do they think I am?”
― Patrick Kennedy, GRILLING DAHMER: The Interrogation Of "The Milwaukee Cannibal"

“Dahmer said that the first time he ate human flesh was in May 1990.”
― Patrick Kennedy, GRILLING DAHMER: The Interrogation Of "The Milwaukee Cannibal"

“He was truly a loner; in fact, phone company records showed that during the entire time he lived at the Oxford Apartments address, not a single phone call was placed to his residence. The more time I spent with him chronicling the facts around his activities, the more I felt sorry for him. He was a pathetically lonely and inept human being. He was unable to make a real connection with anyone and was totally self-absorbed. His lifestyle was a continuous hedonistic pursuit of pleasure. All his time, effort, energy, and money went to his overwhelming desire for a warm, compliant human body, with alcohol fueling his every move.”
― Patrick Kennedy, GRILLING DAHMER: The Interrogation Of "The Milwaukee Cannibal"

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus