"Every natural form is latent within us, originates……" — Hermann Hesse
"Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create."
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397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse has 397 quotes on this site.
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into…
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Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing…
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real…
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and…
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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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Love is stronger than violence.
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
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