Hesse Quotes

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while th...

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

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

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

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that...

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

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure ...

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, ...

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, t...

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his hear...

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and eff...

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asi...