An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — 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
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. — 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
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the… — 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
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and… — 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
