Hermann Hesse

If you hate a person,you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part ourselves doesn't disturb us. ;)

— Hermann Hesse

“One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Siempre fue así y seguirá siéndolo: el tiempo y el mundo, el dinero y el poder, pertenecen a los pequeños y a…

— Hermann Hesse

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

— Hermann Hesse

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent…

— Hermann Hesse

“Čini mi se da je ljubav od svega najvažnija. Prozreti svet, protumačiti ga i prezreti, to je stvar velikih mislilaca. Ali, meni…

— Hermann Hesse

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

— Hermann Hesse

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if…

— Hermann Hesse

“I had walked but a short time when I met a man with a tin number on his hat, and he asked…

— Hermann Hesse

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny.…

— Hermann Hesse

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything…

— Hermann Hesse

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part…

— Hermann Hesse

“And so every one of us has to find out for himself what is allowed and what is forbidden--forbidden for him. It…

— Hermann Hesse

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have…

— Hermann Hesse

If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned…

— Hermann Hesse

“Sadly, I swallowed my tea and stared at the crowd of second-rate elegance...”

— Hermann Hesse

“[H]e regarded himself, just as every person tends to do, as a unique individual, while he was really typical.”

— Hermann Hesse

And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and…

— Hermann Hesse

“In reality, however, every ego, so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven,…

— Hermann Hesse

“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to…

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“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?”

— Hermann Hesse

“And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service…

— Hermann Hesse

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

— Hermann Hesse

“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When…

— Hermann Hesse