"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 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.
Every step forward is also a step on the slippery slope toward the dustbin.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
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.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
