Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. — 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
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest” — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“(We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I know that many people won’t believe that a child not yet eleven is capable of such feelings. It is not to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The life of the grownups had caught me, at first by a lock of hair or a finger, but soon it would… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Even the wolf has two, and more than two, souls in his wolf's breast, and he who desires to be a wolf… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often… — 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
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — 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 important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..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 Image
“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 Image
