All this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and h… - Hermann Hesse

[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

In the German spirit the matriarchal link with nature rules in the form of the hegemony of music to an extent unknown in any other people.