Hermann-hesse Quotes

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant als...

At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its br...

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, who ever knows how to listen to them, can...

...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and ...

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means...

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a...

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. ...

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of...

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, prete...

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...

We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane an...

For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived t...

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his ...

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think i...