Philosophical
What if the wrong path is the only path?
In *Siddhartha*, the main character leaves every teacher he finds. He chases money, sex, and status until he's hollowed out and standing at a river, ready to end his life. It looks like a complete waste of decades. But Hesse's argument is strange: those years weren't a detour. They were the only possible route.
Wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on always sounds like foolishness.— Hermann Hesse, *Siddhartha*
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The thinker
Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist and poet whose works explore the individual's search for self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment.
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Part of these journeys
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