Mark well: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and yet be full of
fantasy and music. One can be a musician or a bead-player, and yet be
devoted to law and order. The person whom we take as our ideal and try to
emulate should be able at all times to exchange his art or science for any
other, should allow the most crystal clear logic to radiate from his Bead
Game and display the most creative fantasy in grammar. That is how we
should be, and we should be prepared at any moment to be transferred to
another post without opposition or allowing ourselves to become
confused.
-- Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi [Das Glasperlenspiel]