# Quote — Hermann Hesse, Demian

> Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world and you tried to suppress the second half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

- Author: [Hermann Hesse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse.md)
- Book: [Demian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian.md)
- Page: 146
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse#Demian_(1919)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian/only-the-ideas

## More from this book

> Translation: If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

p. 182 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian/translation-if-you.md)

> Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself

p. 193 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian/each-man-had.md)

> The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

p. 199 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian/the-world-as.md)