“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself”
Source: Demian (1919), p. 193
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Source: Demian (1919), p. 9 Prologue
Context: I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams — like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
Each man's life represents the road toward himself, and attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that — one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can.
“Each man must think not only of himself, but think of his buddy fighting alongside him.”
Source: George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton%27s_speech_to_the_Third_Army
Ch. 11 https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch11.htm
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
“Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself.”
Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 130
