--- title: "9 Foolish Quotes By Hermann Hesse" description: "9 Foolish quotes by Hermann Hesse. Plus more from Hermann Hesse and more Foolish sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/hermann-hesse-130_foolish_how-foolish-to-wear-oneself-out-in-vain_126669.png" --- > [How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/how-foolish-to-wear-oneself-out-in-vain-longing-for-warmth-solitude/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/hermann-hesse-130_foolish_how-foolish-to-wear-oneself-out-in-vain_126669.png) > [“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/would-you-actually-believe-that-you-had-committed-your-foolish-acts/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/hermann-hesse-130_foolish_would-you-actually-believe-that-you-had_746723.png) > [Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/opinions-mean-nothing-they-may-be-beautiful-or-ugly-clever-or-foolish/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bb/hermann-hesse-130_beautiful_opinions-mean-nothing-they-may-be-beauti_1374679.png) > [Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/wisdom-is-not-communicable-the-wisdom-which-a-wise-man-tries-to/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec1/hermann-hesse-130_communicate_wisdom-is-not-communicable-the-wisdom-wh_1092853.png) > [How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/how-foolish-it-is-to-wear-oneself-out-in-vain-longing-for-warmth/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f6/hermann-hesse-130_foolish_how-foolish-it-is-to-wear-oneself-out-in_650213.png) > [Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/words-do-not-express-thoughts-very-well-they-always-become-a-little-2/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/hermann-hesse-130_different_words-do-not-express-thoughts-very-well_1746092.jpg) > [“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/i-might-be-a-beast-astray-with-no-sense-of-its-environment-yet-there/) [hermann hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/hermann-hesse-130_foolish_i-might-be-a-beast-astray-with-no-sense_2430818.jpg) > [“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/words-do-not-express-thoughts-very-well-everything-immediately/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80a/hermann-hesse-130_foolish_words-do-not-express-thoughts-very-well_1385301.png) > [Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/let-me-say-no-more-words-do-no-justice-to-the-hidden-meaning/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b39/hermann-hesse-130_different_let-me-say-no-more-words-do-no-justice-t_2577198.jpg) ## Other authors on Foolish ## More 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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/only-within-yourself-exists-the-other-reality-for-which-you-long-i/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/therefore-i-see-whatever-exists-as-good-death-is-to-me-like-life-sin/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-home-isn-t-just-a-roof-over-our-heads-a-home-is-a-place-where-we/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/fortunately-like-most-children-i-had-learned-what-is-most-valuable/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-mistaken-and-unhappy-notion-that-a-man-is-an-enduring-unity-is/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-would-be-better-for-our-country-and-the-world-in-general-if-at/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-bird-fights-its-way-out-of-the-egg-the-egg-is-the-world-who-would/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/everything-becomes-a-little-different-as-soon-as-it-is-spoken-out-loud/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-may-be-important-to-great-thinkers-to-examine-the-world-to-explain/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-is-useless-for-you-to-build-walls-and-dormitories-and-chapels-and/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/when-the-world-is-at-peace-when-all-things-are-tranquil-and-all-men/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-mere-nothing-suffices-and-the-lightning-strikes/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/and-if-time-is-not-real-then-the-dividing-line-that-seems-to-lie/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/beautiful-was-this-world-looking-at-it-thus-without-searching-thus/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/were-not-the-gods-forms-created-like-me-and-you-mortal-transient/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foolish/hermann-hesse/#itemlist", "name": "9 Foolish Quotes By Hermann Hesse", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! 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