In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He who travels far will often see things far removed from what he believed was truth. When he talks about it in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When a person seeks," Siddhartha said, "it can easily happen that his eye sees only the thing he is seeking; he is… — 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
“Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is… — 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
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
“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
“The opposite of every truth is just as true! That’s like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The truth is simply that money, power, and all the possessions for which men torment and ultimately shoot each other mean little… — 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
