Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
Siddhartha,
Hesse Hermann · 1922
“When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing …
The Antichrist
Nietzsche Friedrich · 1888
The first pages
1.
—Let us look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans—we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar, in his …