Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to… — 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… — 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… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. — 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
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He believed that his life and destiny were at the centre of the world's attention, just as everyone does.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.” — 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
