Philosophy
Siddhartha
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA young man who has been given every spiritual answer decides he must instead go and get every answer wrong himself. He becomes an ascetic, then a merchant, then a ferryman, discarding each self once it has taught him what it could. Hesse suggests wisdom cannot be handed down; it can only be arrived at, slowly, by the long way round.
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- Reading time
- About 2 hr 35 min
- Where to find it
- On the Philosophy shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2500. In the public domain in the United States.