29 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
- Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
- One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
- Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
- The truth is lived, not taught.
- Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
- You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
- Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
- When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- 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.
- What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
- To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
- Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
- Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
- There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
- Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- Solitude is independence.
- If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
- In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
- It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
- Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
- Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
- Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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