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
“Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart… — 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
“I wish that they shall all stay with the teachings, that they shall reach their goal! It is not my place to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Slower, he walked along in his thoughts and asked himself: "But what is this, what you have sought to learn from teachings… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“No, there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found,… — 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
“Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that.” “Indeed. Then what does it depend… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You've heard the teachings, oh son of a Brahman, and good for you that you've thought about it thus deeply. You've found… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha.” — 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
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“but what is it you wanted to learn from the teachings and teachers, and those who taught you so much, what could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between… — 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
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