You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which …

Hermann Hesse
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You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2002). The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel, p.168, Macmillan
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