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This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them. By Hermann Hesse

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. By Hermann Hesse

No, my dear, how should I be sad? I, who have been rich and happy, have become even richer and happier now. My son has been given to me. By Hermann Hesse

Words can not express the joy of new life. By Hermann Hesse

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. By Hermann Hesse

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover. By Hermann Hesse

For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha By Hermann Hesse

My path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead By Hermann Hesse

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river. By Hermann Hesse

You could observe people's folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way. By Hermann Hesse

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace. By Hermann Hesse

To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms. By Hermann Hesse

Perhaps it is this which keeps you from findingpeace, perhaps it is the many words By Hermann Hesse

Friendship is identification and difference By Hermann Hesse

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value ... he has given to me myself. By Hermann Hesse

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. By Hermann Hesse

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. By Hermann Hesse

If I know what love is, it is because of you. By Hermann Hesse

To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions. By Hermann Hesse

All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take. By Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. By Hermann Hesse

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil. By Hermann Hesse

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. By Hermann Hesse

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. By Hermann Hesse

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. By Hermann Hesse

Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up. By Hermann Hesse

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. By Hermann Hesse

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. By Hermann Hesse

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. By Hermann Hesse

Without a mother you cannot die. By Hermann Hesse

Only when I found myself sitting in front of you did I realize that my wish was only half fulfilled and that my sole aim was to sit next to you. By Hermann Hesse

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. By Hermann Hesse

Here it is Saturday. You wouldn't know how good it feels after a hard week.""Oh, I can imagine," said Knulp with a smile. By Hermann Hesse

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. By Hermann Hesse

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. By Hermann Hesse

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it. By Hermann Hesse

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen. By Hermann Hesse

We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. By Hermann Hesse

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. By Hermann Hesse

Why did he, the irreproachable one, have to wash off sins every day, strive for a cleansing every day, over and over every day? By Hermann Hesse

Perhaps he was handsome, perhaps I liked him, perhaps I also found him repulsive, I could not be sure of that either. By Hermann Hesse

The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ... By Hermann Hesse

But each one is a gamble of Nature, a hopeful attempt at forming a human being. By Hermann Hesse

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long. By Hermann Hesse

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself. By Hermann Hesse

Wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness. By Hermann Hesse

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. By Hermann Hesse

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. By Hermann Hesse

Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless, By Hermann Hesse

But be warned, oh seeker of knowledge, of the thicket of opinions and of arguing about words. By Hermann Hesse

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. By Hermann Hesse

The dream of death is only the dark smokeUnder which the fires of life are burning. By Hermann Hesse

I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases. By Hermann Hesse

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul ... By Hermann Hesse

I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age. By Hermann Hesse

I meditated upon it and found myself to be a riddle By Hermann Hesse

Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard By Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. By Hermann Hesse

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. By Hermann Hesse

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. By Hermann Hesse

It was one of the ferryman's greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen. By Hermann Hesse

He could have exchanged his name and address with any of his neighbours, and nothing would have been different. By Hermann Hesse

People like best what is hard for them to obtain. By Hermann Hesse

passacaglia by the old master Buxtehude. By Hermann Hesse

Enough! Or too much. By Hermann Hesse

seriousness, young man, is an accident of time By Hermann Hesse

The freedom to ... regard the future as the hope and product of my own strength and not as something fashioned by some strange power from above. By Hermann Hesse

Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them, By Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. By Hermann Hesse

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. By Hermann Hesse

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. By Hermann Hesse

While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings. By Hermann Hesse

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. By Hermann Hesse

In the beginning was the myth. By Hermann Hesse

It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse. By Hermann Hesse

It's so good to know that inside us there's a self that knows everything! By Hermann Hesse

Let every reader do as his conscience bids him. By Hermann Hesse

There are many ways in which the god can make us lonely and lead us to ourselves. By Hermann Hesse

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. By Hermann Hesse

Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life. By Hermann Hesse

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures? By Hermann Hesse

The river is everywhere. By Hermann Hesse

Look at a person carefully long enough, and you'll know more about him than he himself does." The By Hermann Hesse

Nothing is caused by demons. There are no demons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait, and fast. By Hermann Hesse

As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy. By Hermann Hesse

And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves. By Hermann Hesse

It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness. By Hermann Hesse

Your soul is the whole world. By Hermann Hesse

The world was beautiful when one just looked at it without By Hermann Hesse

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. By Hermann Hesse

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. By Hermann Hesse

A person can neither think what he wants to nor can I make him think what I want to. By Hermann Hesse

But though the ways led away from the self, their end nevertheless always led back to the self. By Hermann Hesse

The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything. By Hermann Hesse

Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared. By Hermann Hesse

When we hate a man, we hate in him something which resides in us ourselves. What is not in us does not move us." Never By Hermann Hesse

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible By Hermann Hesse

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. By Hermann Hesse

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. By Hermann Hesse

Only the ideas that we really live have any value. By Hermann Hesse

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. By Hermann Hesse

How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal ... ! By Hermann Hesse

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. By Hermann Hesse

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. By Hermann Hesse

I can think. I can wait. I can fast. By Hermann Hesse

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment. By Hermann Hesse

Everyone can perform magic; everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, to wait, and to fast." Kamala By Hermann Hesse

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! By Hermann Hesse

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet. By Hermann Hesse

He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. By Hermann Hesse

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new By Hermann Hesse

We marked men were not at all worried about the shape the future would take. By Hermann Hesse

Love is stronger than violence. By Hermann Hesse

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. By Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. By Hermann Hesse

I lived again through all the loves of my life - but under hapier stars. By Hermann Hesse

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. By Hermann Hesse

The highest art ... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. By Hermann Hesse

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. By Hermann Hesse

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. By Hermann Hesse

Our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are. By Hermann Hesse

I do not want to kill and dissect myself any longer, By Hermann Hesse

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha. By Hermann Hesse

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. By Hermann Hesse

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. By Hermann Hesse

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart. By Hermann Hesse

Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won. By Hermann Hesse

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. By Hermann Hesse

No one ever arrives home," she said amiably. "But when the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while. By Hermann Hesse

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. By Hermann Hesse

We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian By Hermann Hesse

T is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs.. By Hermann Hesse

It seems to have been my bad luck always to receive more than I could return, from life and friends. By Hermann Hesse

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. By Hermann Hesse

Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life. By Hermann Hesse

Did all this make sense? By Hermann Hesse

nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! By Hermann Hesse

Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better. By Hermann Hesse

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, The Brahman is the arrow's target that one should incessantly hit. By Hermann Hesse

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, By Hermann Hesse

The tree does not die, it waits. By Hermann Hesse

human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If By Hermann Hesse

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. By Hermann Hesse

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again. By Hermann Hesse

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite. By Hermann Hesse

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. By Hermann Hesse

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance? By Hermann Hesse

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. By Hermann Hesse

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. By Hermann Hesse

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously. By Hermann Hesse

Fate and character are different names for the same idea. By Hermann Hesse

And the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. By Hermann Hesse

Chandogya-Upanishads. 'In truth, the name of the Brahman is Satyam. Indeed, he who knows it enters the heavenly world each day. By Hermann Hesse

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. By Hermann Hesse

But how are you going to die one day, Narcissus, since you have no mother? Without a mother one cannot love. Without a mother one cannot die. By Hermann Hesse

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. By Hermann Hesse

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music. By Hermann Hesse

We can understand one another; but each one is able to explain only himself. By Hermann Hesse

The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time. By Hermann Hesse

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. By Hermann Hesse

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. By Hermann Hesse

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. By Hermann Hesse

Even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone. By Hermann Hesse

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. By Hermann Hesse

I live in my dreams - that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference. By Hermann Hesse

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. By Hermann Hesse

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. By Hermann Hesse

Everything I had so far experienced was mere chance ... my life still lacked a deep individual meaning of its own By Hermann Hesse

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day. By Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go By Hermann Hesse

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. By Hermann Hesse

He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching. By Hermann Hesse

Love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen. By Hermann Hesse

I lived in those dreams - I was always a heavy dreamer - more than in real life; those shadows consumed my strength and life. By Hermann Hesse

Happiness is love, nothing else. By Hermann Hesse

Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret. By Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. By Hermann Hesse

You must throw away everything you have and wash yourself clean of the past; otherwise you will never be able to face the world [happy and free]. By Hermann Hesse

Inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest. By Hermann Hesse

desires are not killed by fulfilling them By Hermann Hesse

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. By Hermann Hesse

No matter how close two human beings may be, there is always a gulf between them which only love can bridge, and that only from hour to hour. By Hermann Hesse

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. By Hermann Hesse

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. By Hermann Hesse

Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played strange parts. By Hermann Hesse

Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come? By Hermann Hesse

[make] Sundays out of weekdays. By Hermann Hesse

Your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. By Hermann Hesse

With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say. But isn't every life, isn't every work beautiful? By Hermann Hesse

Beginning to doubt the gods, there is only Atman ... and where is Atman found but in the self? But where is this self? By Hermann Hesse

We lived like pilgrims and made no use of those contrivances which spring into existence in a world deluded by money. By Hermann Hesse

There are few people who know how to listen and I have not met anybody who can do so like you. By Hermann Hesse

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. By Hermann Hesse

Content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied! By Hermann Hesse

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking a detour, an error. By Hermann Hesse

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. By Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices - and the lightning strikes. By Hermann Hesse

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. By Hermann Hesse

No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds By Hermann Hesse

And out of the awareness of sameness grew the desire for differentiation. By Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. By Hermann Hesse

Good that you ask you should always ask, always have doubts. By Hermann Hesse

The purifications were nice, but they were just water, and didn't wash away sins; they didn't cure the mental thirst or allay his heart's anxiety. By Hermann Hesse

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. By Hermann Hesse

Eternally revolving wheel of avidity and suffering; By Hermann Hesse

All I really wanted was to try to live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so difficult? By Hermann Hesse

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? By Hermann Hesse

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God. By Hermann Hesse

Like animals we call to each other, was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon. By Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence. By Hermann Hesse

genius in love is the yearning to handover By Hermann Hesse

Only the weak are put on paths without peril. By Hermann Hesse

His life and actions were determined less by impulses and aspirations than by prohibitions and the fear of punishment. At By Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously. By Hermann Hesse

If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love. By Hermann Hesse

Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. By Hermann Hesse

We all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal. By Hermann Hesse

The wheel of physical manifestations is turning quickly, Govinda. By Hermann Hesse

One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time. By Hermann Hesse

I felt and saw the night outside deep within me. Wind and wetness, autumn, bitter smell of foliage, scattered leaves of the elm tree. By Hermann Hesse

Every day I did something wrong, and in the end I began to enjoy it. By Hermann Hesse

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? By Hermann Hesse

Nothing," said he in the mirror, "I am only waiting. I am waiting for death.""Where is death then?""Coming," said the other. By Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. By Hermann Hesse

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. By Hermann Hesse

Then it seems that I, who wanted to watch over you, fell asleep myself. By Hermann Hesse

All I wanted to do was live the life that was inside me, trying to get out. Why was that so hard? By Hermann Hesse

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. By Hermann Hesse

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. By Hermann Hesse

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish - and it will. By Hermann Hesse

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. By Hermann Hesse

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act. By Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom. By Hermann Hesse

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life. By Hermann Hesse

The old buzzard told me his life's story. I only remember that it was interesting and unusual; I've forgotten all the details. By Hermann Hesse

She wanted once more to extract the last sweet drop from this fleeting pleasure. By Hermann Hesse

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. By Hermann Hesse

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. By Hermann Hesse

Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself. By Hermann Hesse

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. By Hermann Hesse

Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long. By Hermann Hesse

During this long ... journey, I realised the impossibility of running away and escaping. By Hermann Hesse

You're free this evening, Barbele. You just don't want to come. By Hermann Hesse

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. By Hermann Hesse

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. By Hermann Hesse

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that. By Hermann Hesse

Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more sensible people. By Hermann Hesse

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. By Hermann Hesse

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. By Hermann Hesse

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new. By Hermann Hesse

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. By Hermann Hesse

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence. By Hermann Hesse

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. By Hermann Hesse

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life. By Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. By Hermann Hesse

The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics. By Hermann Hesse

Faith is stronger than so-called reason. By Hermann Hesse

Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed hold of him. By Hermann Hesse

Yes, so it was, everything came back, which had not been suffered and solved up to its end, the same pain was suffered over and over again. By Hermann Hesse

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us. By Hermann Hesse

All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; By Hermann Hesse

The world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky By Hermann Hesse

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. By Hermann Hesse

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire By Hermann Hesse

But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute. By Hermann Hesse

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? By Hermann Hesse

The town in which ... I had spent my youth ... had nothing to give me but memories. By Hermann Hesse

Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle? By Hermann Hesse

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. By Hermann Hesse

The truth is lived, not taught. By Hermann Hesse

There is a miracle in every new beginning By Hermann Hesse

With a thousand eyes, the river looked at him By Hermann Hesse

Those who love nothing and hate nothing in the world, have no fetters. By Hermann Hesse

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. By Hermann Hesse

It was this very thing, it seemed to him now, which had been his sickness before: that he was not able to love anybody or anything. Siddhartha By Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never By Hermann Hesse

Now, he had to experience his self.. . . But never, he had really foundthis self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought. By Hermann Hesse

Let us enjoy this fruit and await further ones, By Hermann Hesse

A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. By Hermann Hesse

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves. By Hermann Hesse

These people are rare who knows how to listen. By Hermann Hesse

Lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky. By Hermann Hesse

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists By Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object. By Hermann Hesse

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. By Hermann Hesse

For this reason the bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. That By Hermann Hesse

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. By Hermann Hesse

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. By Hermann Hesse

This wonderful passage through the woods had to be painted with love By Hermann Hesse

I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them. By Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. By Hermann Hesse

The opposite of every truth is just as true. By Hermann Hesse

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls By Hermann Hesse

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. By Hermann Hesse

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. By Hermann Hesse

The teachers apparently regarded a dead student very differently from a living one. By Hermann Hesse

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. By Hermann Hesse

All this seemed a decorative newly painted picture behind clear new glass. By Hermann Hesse

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. By Hermann Hesse

Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me. By Hermann Hesse

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art. By Hermann Hesse

What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding. By Hermann Hesse

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching ... just looked, simply and innocently. By Hermann Hesse

I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha. By Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself. By Hermann Hesse

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. By Hermann Hesse

And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. By Hermann Hesse

Anyone who has hope is happy By Hermann Hesse

If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it. By Hermann Hesse

Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around him. By Hermann Hesse

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame. By Hermann Hesse

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. By Hermann Hesse

If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. By Hermann Hesse

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. By Hermann Hesse

Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom By Hermann Hesse

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. By Hermann Hesse

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. By Hermann Hesse

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things. By Hermann Hesse

The feeling swept over me that I was not born for a normal life at home among my people or in cities and houses By Hermann Hesse

Suffering was life, full of suffering was the world. By Hermann Hesse

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. By Hermann Hesse

Every life has its radiance and beauty. By Hermann Hesse

I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure for pride. By Hermann Hesse

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized. By Hermann Hesse

Whenever he is hungry and opens his bag, there are only pearls inside. By Hermann Hesse

Disclosing his wound to his listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river. By Hermann Hesse

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. By Hermann Hesse

Is not every life, every work fine? By Hermann Hesse

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. By Hermann Hesse

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he can do. By Hermann Hesse

Her little treasure of experiences opened up, and it was larger than she herself would have supposed. By Hermann Hesse

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. By Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. By Hermann Hesse

Every experience has its element of magic. By Hermann Hesse

Now true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously. By Hermann Hesse

You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. By Hermann Hesse

Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. By Hermann Hesse

He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country. By Hermann Hesse

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes. By Hermann Hesse

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. By Hermann Hesse

The ideas we really live have any value. By Hermann Hesse

What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication? By Hermann Hesse

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. By Hermann Hesse

Too much thinking was still not good for me. By Hermann Hesse

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth. By Hermann Hesse

He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same and yet new in every moment! By Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes questionable as soon as I consider it closely, everything slips away and dissolves. By Hermann Hesse

The art of love-giving and taking become one. By Hermann Hesse

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love By Hermann Hesse

I began to sense that I would be a stranger in society for the rest of my life, and the desire was born in me to lead my life outside this society. By Hermann Hesse

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come. By Hermann Hesse

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. By Hermann Hesse

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live ... By Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. By Hermann Hesse

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. By Hermann Hesse

I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning. By Hermann Hesse

I paint because I have no tail to wag. By Hermann Hesse

How easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism By Hermann Hesse

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. By Hermann Hesse

You must find your dream ... but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream. By Hermann Hesse

Sadly, I swallowed my tea and stared at the crowd of second-rate elegance ... By Hermann Hesse

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. By Hermann Hesse

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. By Hermann Hesse

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me. By Hermann Hesse