World Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Your soul is the whole world.

— Hermann Hesse

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

— Hermann Hesse

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

— Hermann Hesse

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

— Hermann Hesse

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

— Hermann Hesse

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

— Hermann Hesse

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

— Hermann Hesse

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

— Hermann Hesse

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They…

— Hermann Hesse

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the…

— Hermann Hesse

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing…

— Hermann Hesse

It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,…

— Hermann Hesse

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

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all…

— Hermann Hesse

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a…

— Hermann Hesse

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we…

— Hermann Hesse

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of…

— Hermann Hesse

I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the…

— Hermann Hesse

All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling…

— Hermann Hesse

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind…

— Hermann Hesse

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only…

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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive…

— Hermann Hesse

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

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by…

— Hermann Hesse

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

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at…

— Hermann Hesse

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but…

— Hermann Hesse

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back…

— Hermann Hesse

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

— Hermann Hesse

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

— Hermann Hesse

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to…

— Hermann Hesse

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no…

— Hermann Hesse

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is…

— Hermann Hesse

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and…

— 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

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they…

— Hermann Hesse