When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called… — 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
