Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“... 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
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
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
“..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
“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
“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 Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
