Hermann Hesse

Did all this make sense?

— Hermann Hesse

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

Your soul is the whole world.

— Hermann Hesse

Love is stronger than violence.

— Hermann Hesse

“Ljudi su deca.”

— Hermann Hesse

The truth is lived, not taught…

— Hermann Hesse

“La eternidad es un instante.”

— Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence.

— Hermann Hesse

“But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute.”

— Hermann Hesse

“People like best what is hard for them to obtain.”

— Hermann Hesse

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

— Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

— Hermann Hesse

“Only the weak are put on paths without peril.”

— Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

— Hermann Hesse

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

— Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

— Hermann Hesse

“This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words.”

— Hermann Hesse

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

— Hermann Hesse

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

— Hermann Hesse

“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.”

— Hermann Hesse

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

— Hermann Hesse

“It’s so good to know that inside us there’s a self that knows everything!” I”

— Hermann Hesse

“Nunca como en esta hora me parecía que me había hecho tanto daño la simple razón de tener que vivir.”

— Hermann Hesse

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

— Hermann Hesse

“...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and…

— Hermann Hesse

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying…

— Hermann Hesse

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a…

— Hermann Hesse

“He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high…

— Hermann Hesse

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of…

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“One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it,…

— Hermann Hesse

...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,…

— Hermann Hesse

“La sabiduría no es comunicativa. La sabiduría que un sabio intenta comunicar suena siempre a necedad. Se pueden transmitir los conocimientos pero…

— Hermann Hesse

“... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the…

— Hermann Hesse

“No one had any objection when I suggested another detour shortly before reaching town. We turned on to a lovely road that…

— Hermann Hesse

“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self…

— Hermann Hesse

“U životu ne postoji nikakva dužnost osim dužnosti: biti srećan. Samo smo zato na svetu, a sa svim dužnostima, svim moralom i…

— Hermann Hesse

“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or…

— Hermann Hesse

The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The…

— Hermann Hesse

“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of…

— Hermann Hesse

“Having been pondering while slowly walking along, he now stopped as these thoughts caught hold of him, and right away another thought…

— Hermann Hesse