“Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”
"Obeying is like eating and drinking. There is nothing like it if you have been without it too long. Isn't it so, you are glad to do as i tell you?"
"Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason, i wished to be hundred years old. In eternity, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for joke."
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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