Men Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself

— Hermann Hesse

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

— Hermann Hesse

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

— Hermann Hesse

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

— Hermann Hesse

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

— Hermann Hesse

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has…

— Hermann Hesse

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now…

— Hermann Hesse

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way…

— Hermann Hesse

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and…

— Hermann Hesse

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker…

— Hermann Hesse

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of…

— Hermann Hesse

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying…

— Hermann Hesse

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,…

— Hermann Hesse

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed…

— Hermann Hesse

Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish…

— Hermann Hesse

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the…

— Hermann Hesse

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a…

— Hermann Hesse

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The…

— Hermann Hesse

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

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but…

— Hermann Hesse

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with…

— Hermann Hesse

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit…

— Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests…

— Hermann Hesse

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at…

— Hermann Hesse

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to…

— Hermann Hesse

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

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to…

— Hermann Hesse

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the…

— Hermann Hesse

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him…

— Hermann Hesse

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will…

— Hermann Hesse

No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he…

— Hermann Hesse

Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of…

— Hermann Hesse

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom…

— Hermann Hesse

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole…

— Hermann Hesse

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