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“We always limit our personality much too narrowly! We always count as pertaining to our person only what we recognize as individual differences that set us apart. But we’re comprised of everything that comprises the world, each of us, and just as our body bears within it the lines of evolutionary descent all the way back to the fish and even much farther beyond that, in the same way our soul contains everything that has ever dwelt in human souls. All the gods and devils that ever existed, whether among the Greeks, Chinese, or Zulus, are all inside us, they exist there as possibilities, as wishes, as ways of escape. If mankind died out except for a single halfway-gifted child that had received no education, that child would rediscover the whole course of events, it would be able to produce again the gods, demons, Edens, positive and negative commandments, the Old and the New Testament.”
― Demian
― Demian
“We always define the limits of our personality too narrowly. In general, we count as part of our personality only that which we can recognize as being an individual trait or as diverging from the norm. But 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.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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