“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever dream … about another … more beautiful life where nobody is envious of others, … where people treat other… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Every person encounters the open door here and there in the course of life, and it occurs to everyone at one time… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, with amazement… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
