People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark… — 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
