“Deep was his sleep and free of dreams; it had been a long time since he had known such sleep. When he… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices,… — 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
