Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — 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
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — 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
