For the Game is of course purely a symbol of the human imagination and emphatically not a patentable “Monopoly” of the mind.

Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Hesse Glass Bead Game purely a symbol human imagination

Consider also:

  1. “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.”
  2. “Hesse argued that men must seek a new morality that, transcending the conventional dichotomy of good and evil, will embrace all extremes of life in one unified vision.”
  3. “A by-stander often sees more of the game than those that play …”
  4. Charles Cameron’s Hipbone Games
  5. “Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, her war, her taking on a symbol and a reality that outweighed her. Now my insurance rates will go up, she realized as she climbed from her car. In this world you pay for tilting with evil in cold, hard cash.”