Conquer Self Quotes 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

— 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…

— Hermann Hesse

“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..”

— 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…

— Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

— 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…

— Hermann Hesse

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

— Hermann Hesse