All Hermann Hesse Quotes
- Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… Addition
- Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. Art
- How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. Beautiful
- A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... Evening
- Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can… Carried
- The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Book
- I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. Begun
- Only the ideas that we really live have any value. Any
- Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long. Exists
- There is a miracle in every new beginning Beginning
- When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. Excite
- Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that… Born
- All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously. All
- Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. Judgement
- Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal… All
- Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom. Communicated
- In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. Enveloped
- Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? Created
- Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow… Console
- Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it… Day
- The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of… All
- Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with… Everywhere
- Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. Aversion
- When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk… All
- When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable… Achieve