Hermann Hesse Quotes
Most popular Hermann Hesse Quotes
Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason's child; it springs from deeper strata.
Words are really a mask. They rarely express the true meaning, in fact, they tend to hide it.
The highest art...sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
To be able to throw oneself away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile-- that is happiness.
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.
The slowly awakening sense of my own sexuality overcame me, as it does every person, like an enemy and terrorist, as something forbidden, tempting, and sinful.
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.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the motive power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.
When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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.
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.
To be able to throw oneself away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
