Hermann Hesse Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long.
Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, The Brahman is the arrow's target that one should incessantly hit.
We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching ... just looked, simply and innocently.
Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard
Now, he had to experience his self.. . . But never, he had really found
this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought.
this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
Nothing," said he in the mirror, "I am only waiting. I am waiting for death."
"Where is death then?"
"Coming," said the other.
"Where is death then?"
"Coming," said the other.
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
Disclosing his wound to his listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river.
The freedom to ... regard the future as the hope and product of my own strength and not as something fashioned by some strange power from above.
Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them,
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
The highest art ... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.
Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up.
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
When we hate a man, we hate in him something which resides in us ourselves. What is not in us does not move us." Never
If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all.
I felt and saw the night outside deep within me. Wind and wetness, autumn, bitter smell of foliage, scattered leaves of the elm tree.
Here it is Saturday. You wouldn't know how good it feels after a hard week."
"Oh, I can imagine," said Knulp with a smile.
"Oh, I can imagine," said Knulp with a smile.
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
Her little treasure of experiences opened up, and it was larger than she herself would have supposed.
The feeling swept over me that I was not born for a normal life at home among my people or in cities and houses
How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal ... !
This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them.
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country.
Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle?
T is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..
I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure for pride.
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly.
It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.