The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Deep was his sleep and free of dreams; it had been a long time since he had known such sleep. When he… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He began to suffocate slowly in the more and more rarefied atmosphere of remoteness and solitude. For now it was his wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He achieved his aim. He was ever more independent. He took orders from no man and ordered his ways to suit no… — 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
“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But in the midst of the freedom he had achieved Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service… — 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
For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — 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
