Hermann HesseThe truth is lived, not taught.371Truth
Hermann HesseEach man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. ✨ Ernest Hemingw… ▶371LifeTime
Hermann HesseI felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2015). Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, p.73, Om Books International371Reading
Hermann HesseHow absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...Th… ▶361Time
Hermann HesseA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... ✨ Hermann Hesse (1980). Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays361LoveReading
Hermann HesseThe 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. ✨ H… ▶373DeathLifeLove
Hermann HesseThere 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 worl… ▶373HumanityLifeTruth
Hermann HesseThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2009). Siddhartha, p.8, Modern Library362Truth
Hermann HesseI believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.373LifePhilosophy
Hermann HessePeople know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run r… ▶362HumanityReadingThought
Hermann HesseWhen a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, bu… ▶362LoveReadingThought
Hermann HesseNothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence ✨ Hermann Hesse (2015). Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, p.81, Om Books International373ReadingTruth
Hermann HesseThose who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsu… ▶352PoliticsThought
Hermann HesseMost people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind r… ▶341HumanityReading
Hermann HesseI have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] … ▶374Life
Hermann HesseThis day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it… ▶374Truth
Hermann HesseIt is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.352Life
Hermann HesseAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never. ✨ Hermann Hesse (1980). Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays353Reading
Hermann HesseThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.331LifePhilosophy
Hermann HesseGood that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse.375Love
Hermann HesseYou should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young ma… ▶364DeathHumanityHumor
Hermann HesseWho travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.353Truth
Hermann HesseIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ✨ Demian ch. 6 (1919)365Philosophy
Hermann HesseAnd some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace w… ▶376LifeReadingThought
Hermann HesseDid all this make sense? ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel, p.216, Macmillan321Reading
Hermann HesseOne cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). Er… ▶332Truth
Hermann HesseLovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolat… ▶365LoveReading
Hermann HesseWithout words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.355HumanityReading
Hermann HesseIt 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: each the other's opposite and complement. … ▶366Reading
Hermann HesseSeeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. ✨ Hermann Hesse (1998). Siddhartha355Sadness
