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
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — 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
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. — 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
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — 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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — 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
