Religion Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

— Hermann Hesse

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is…

— Hermann Hesse

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at…

— Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

— Hermann Hesse

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

— Hermann Hesse

“I'm always running into the Sunday God of churchgoing Christians and cannot help noticing that he doesn't help out much on weekdays.”

— Hermann Hesse

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

— Hermann Hesse

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

— Hermann Hesse

“I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Ah, it is hard to find this track of divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum…

— Hermann Hesse

“See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man!" and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit,…

— Hermann Hesse

“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be…

— Hermann Hesse

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the…

— 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

No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to…

— Hermann Hesse

“He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmins had already revealed to him…

— Hermann Hesse

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and…

— Hermann Hesse

“That man is not yet a finished creation but rather a challenge of the spirit; a distant possibility dreaded as much as…

— Hermann Hesse

“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can…

— Hermann Hesse

“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that…

— Hermann Hesse

“If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can…

— Hermann Hesse

“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of…

— Hermann Hesse

“Other centuries sought safety in the union of reason and religion, research and asceticism. In their Universitas Litterarum, theology ruled. Among us…

— Hermann Hesse