Hermann Hesse

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,

— Hermann Hesse

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

— Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

— Hermann Hesse

Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.

— Hermann Hesse

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

— Hermann Hesse

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

— Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

— Hermann Hesse

“I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won”

— Hermann Hesse

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

— Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. Hermann Hesse

— Hermann Hesse

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

— Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

— Hermann Hesse

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing…

— Hermann Hesse

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is…

— Hermann Hesse

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

— Hermann Hesse

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is…

— Hermann Hesse

“I wish that they shall all stay with the teachings, that they shall reach their goal! It is not my place to…

— Hermann Hesse

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it…

— Hermann Hesse

“A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every…

— Hermann Hesse

“Ah, it is hard to find this track of divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum…

— Hermann Hesse

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved…

— Hermann Hesse

“I do not wish to offend you, believe me. I have told you my decision. Nothing can change it. I must leave,…

— Hermann Hesse

“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by…

— Hermann Hesse

“...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no…

— Hermann Hesse

“He achieved his aim. He was ever more independent. He took orders from no man and ordered his ways to suit no…

— Hermann Hesse

A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had…

— Hermann Hesse

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to…

— Hermann Hesse

And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and…

— Hermann Hesse

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see…

— Hermann Hesse

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he…

— Hermann Hesse

“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in…

— Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

— Hermann Hesse

“Somente as idéias que vivemos é que têm valor.”

— Hermann Hesse

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

— Hermann Hesse

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

— Hermann Hesse

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

— Hermann Hesse

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

— Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

— Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

— Hermann Hesse