How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. — 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
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Humanity came first for him, not a political party or movement, and he believed peace could be achieved only if people were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But in the midst of the freedom he had achieved Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Tegularius was a willful, moody person who refused to fit into his society. Every so often he would display the liveliness of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He achieved his aim. He was ever more independent. He took orders from no man and ordered his ways to suit no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — 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
