Like every man of importance he had his daimonion and his amor fati; but in him amor fati manifests itself to us free of somberness and fanaticism.

Hermann Hesse, trans. Richard Winston and Clara Winston, introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski, The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Hesse The Glass Bead Game free of somberness and fanaticism

Consider also:

  1. Charles Cameron’s Hipbone Games
  2. “what I really want is a world wherein I feel generously supported in having disreputable adventures, free to be my expansively weird self.”
  3. “one might be taken for one of those dreadful advanced people that are always clamouring for free thought, and free speech, and free everything”
  4. “A by-stander often sees more of the game than those that play …”
  5. L’Amor e la Guerra