"The Glass Bead Game" Quotes
A complex novel exploring the intersections of art, music, and intellectual pursuits in a future society.
fiction | 576 pages | Published in 2002
Quotes
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Every step forward is also a step on the slippery slope toward the dustbin.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colours on his palette.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
