Children Quotes by Hermann Hesse

“Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case…

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“But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest”

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“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the…

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

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“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in…

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The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

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That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you…

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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in…

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A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as…

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In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks…

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The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were…

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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often…

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

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Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple…

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If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my…

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It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good…

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“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the…

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“Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with…

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“Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let everything enter his mind, birthplace and childhood, all that learning, all that searching,…

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“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them…

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“And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark…

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With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along…

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“Even the wolf has two, and more than two, souls in his wolf's breast, and he who desires to be a wolf…

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“I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to…

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“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again…

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“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to…

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“The life of the grownups had caught me, at first by a lock of hair or a finger, but soon it would…

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“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun…

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

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It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had…

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The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is…

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Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.…

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It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I…

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A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every…

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“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that…

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“(We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution…

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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such…

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“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which…

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