Inspirational Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.

— Hermann Hesse

Every experience has its element of magic.

— Hermann Hesse

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

— Hermann Hesse

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

— Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

— Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

— Hermann Hesse

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

— Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

— Hermann Hesse

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.

— Hermann Hesse

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

— Hermann Hesse

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

— Hermann Hesse

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

— Hermann Hesse

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

— Hermann Hesse

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

— Hermann Hesse

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

— Hermann Hesse

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

— Hermann Hesse

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have…

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“always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, whether my gifts and qualities find the…

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“Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies…

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Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we…

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The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow…

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“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something…

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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every…

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“Asadar, in momentul in care un om face primul pas dilatand acea unitate imaginara a eului sau pana la o dualitate, omul…

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“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be…

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“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of…

— Hermann Hesse

“Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let everything enter his mind, birthplace and childhood, all that learning, all that searching,…

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“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Pjesnik čiji nas stihovi ushićuju možda je bio tužan usamljenik a glazbenik neki sjetan sanjar, ali i tada njegovo djelo dijeli vedrinu…

— Hermann Hesse

“And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being…

— Hermann Hesse

Happiness is love, nothing else.

— Hermann Hesse

There is a miracle in every new beginning

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Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

— Hermann Hesse

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

— Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

— Hermann Hesse

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

— Hermann Hesse

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

— Hermann Hesse

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

— Hermann Hesse

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live...

— Hermann Hesse