To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I'm always running into the Sunday God of churchgoing Christians and cannot help noticing that he doesn't help out much on weekdays.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Ah, it is hard to find this track of divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man!" and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“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 had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmins had already revealed to him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — 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
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“That man is not yet a finished creation but rather a challenge of the spirit; a distant possibility dreaded as much as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Other centuries sought safety in the union of reason and religion, research and asceticism. In their Universitas Litterarum, theology ruled. Among us… — 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
