Quotes about Hesse

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It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's tal — Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no — Hermann Hesse
An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his wayforward, no m — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I fre — Hermann Hesse
And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble perhaps in the end — Hermann Hesse
He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and doe — in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness.
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let th — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? — Hermann Hesse
For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, — Hermann Hesse, Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
Youth ends when egotism does — maturity begins when one lives for others.
Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together. — Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well — Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the posse — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulnes — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be t — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, t — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha