Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“During that very first conversation, about the araucaria, he called himself the Steppenwolf, and this too estranged and disturbed me a little.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls and carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks and on office… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can… — 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
