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
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into… — 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
“From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Where was the knowledgeable one who wove his spell to bring his familiarity with the Atman out of the sleep into the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever dream … about another … more beautiful life where nobody is envious of others, … where people treat other… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Just try it once — a tree, or at least a considerable section of sky, is to be seen anywhere. It does… — 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
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if weanswer it in the affirmative, ifwe accept it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: "It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light,… — 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
“It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, with amazement… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Every person encounters the open door here and there in the course of life, and it occurs to everyone at one time… — 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
“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“... 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
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
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
“..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
“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
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
