All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he… — 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
