“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You told me," he said, "that you love music because it isamoral. That's all right with me. But in that case you… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But where we have given of our love and respect not from habit but of our own free will, where we have… — 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
“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people and the shallow people. To the rest, to the real… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“then all these people were his brothers and sisters. Each one of them carried the memory of a beloved mother and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Struggling, despairing, Klein fought with his demon. All the new understanding and sense of redemption this fateful time had yielded had surged,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“my path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the… — 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
