One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — 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
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — 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 were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — 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
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
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing… — 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
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can… — 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
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
