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
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it… — 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
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few… — 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
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“my path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead” — 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
