You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. — 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
