--- title: "3 Bourgeois Quotes By Hermann Hesse" description: "3 Bourgeois quotes by Hermann Hesse. Plus more from Hermann Hesse and more Bourgeois sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/hermann-hesse-130_bourgeois_the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-an_440140.png" --- > [The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-and-hangs-as-criminals-those-to/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/hermann-hesse-130_bourgeois_the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-an_440140.png) > [The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-bourgeois-treasures-nothing-more-highly-than-the-self-and-so-at/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ce/hermann-hesse-130_achieve_the-bourgeois-treasures-nothing-more-hig_854342.png) > [“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-man-cannot-live-intensely-except-at-the-cost-of-the-self-now-the/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b19/hermann-hesse-130_bourgeois_a-man-cannot-live-intensely-except-at-th_1608438.jpg) ## Other authors on Bourgeois - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-marx-55237.jpg) Karl Marx 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/karl-marx/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vladimir-lenin-94029.jpg) Vladimir Lenin 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/vladimir-lenin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-louise-bourgeois-61482.jpg) Louise Bourgeois 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/louise-bourgeois/) - [Alejandro Castro Espin 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/alejandro-castro-espin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gustave-flaubert-39717.jpg) Gustave Flaubert 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/gustave-flaubert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rosa-luxemburg-81224.jpg) Rosa Luxemburg 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/rosa-luxemburg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-allan-bloom-11693.jpg) Allan Bloom 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/allan-bloom/) ## More by Hermann Hesse > [Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/only-within-yourself-exists-the-other-reality-for-which-you-long-i/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/therefore-i-see-whatever-exists-as-good-death-is-to-me-like-life-sin/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-home-isn-t-just-a-roof-over-our-heads-a-home-is-a-place-where-we/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/fortunately-like-most-children-i-had-learned-what-is-most-valuable/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-mistaken-and-unhappy-notion-that-a-man-is-an-enduring-unity-is/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-would-be-better-for-our-country-and-the-world-in-general-if-at/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-bird-fights-its-way-out-of-the-egg-the-egg-is-the-world-who-would/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/everything-becomes-a-little-different-as-soon-as-it-is-spoken-out-loud/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-may-be-important-to-great-thinkers-to-examine-the-world-to-explain/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-is-useless-for-you-to-build-walls-and-dormitories-and-chapels-and/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/when-the-world-is-at-peace-when-all-things-are-tranquil-and-all-men/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-mere-nothing-suffices-and-the-lightning-strikes/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/and-if-time-is-not-real-then-the-dividing-line-that-seems-to-lie/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/beautiful-was-this-world-looking-at-it-thus-without-searching-thus/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/were-not-the-gods-forms-created-like-me-and-you-mortal-transient/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/hermann-hesse/#itemlist", "name": "3 Bourgeois Quotes By Hermann Hesse", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hermann Hesse" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-and-hangs-as-criminals-those-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/hermann-hesse-130_bourgeois_the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-an_440140.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/hermann-hesse-130_bourgeois_the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-an_440140.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/hermann-hesse-130_bourgeois_the-bourgeois-today-burns-as-heretics-an_440140.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.” — Hermann Hesse", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. 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