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John Noble ([personal profile] jackofallgeeks) wrote2006-11-17 04:46 am
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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

Not sure who this Hesse guy is, but I've long believed that line.
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[identity profile] nif.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I *think* he wrote Siddartha. Or Siddhartha. Or something like that. Its about Buddha. Very popular in the 60's. I think.

[identity profile] dikaiosunh.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
He's a quite prominent German writer (whose heyday was, yes, in the 60s-ish). Among his better-known works are Siddhartha, which does deal with the Buddha; Steppenwolf (from which the band takes its name), about middle age (to the extent that you can put it in a nutshell - that's a very unfair description);, Narcissus and Goldmund, which deals with a longstanding friendship between two childhood friends one of whom takes a religious, the other a secular path; and, The Glass Bead Game, which details a semi-futuristic society in which new knowledge is disdained by the elite in favor of elaborate "games" linking previous knowledge together.

[identity profile] nif.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
This discussion makes me think you may enjoy The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. It's essentially a book of quotes like the Hesse one. Now I'm thinking about Far Eastern literature because of the whole Buddha connection. So, quote from Krishmamurti- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society." I like that one.
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