“I became unhappy because I saw nothing but the usual tribulations, trade, progress, and improvements on the earth.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Over his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You should let yourself be carried away, like the clouds in the sky. You shouldn’t resist. God exists in your destiny just… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to… — 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
“But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...to you, differences are quite unimportant; to me, they are what matters most. I am a scholar by nature; science is my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Nobody really knew anything. People lived; they went here and there about the earth and rode through forests; so much seemed to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“This is good too, very good,” he said, “listen to this: ‘A man should be proud of suffering. All suffering is a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever… — 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
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