Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds… — 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
