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Hermann Hesse Quote: “I’m not kidding. I’m telling you what I’ve found. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. This was what I, even as a young man, sometimes suspected, what has driven me away from the teachers.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “His face was still more clever and spiritual than others, but it seldom smiled, and one after the other it was taking on the traits one so often observes in the faces of the wealthy: that look of dissatisfaction, infirmity, displeasure, lethargy, unkindness. Slowly he was being stricken with the maladies that afflict rich people’s souls.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don’t take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One’s born and at once one is guilty. You must have had a remarkable sort of religious education if you did not know that.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “There’s something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I’d be glad, but all the same I’d look at it with a colder eye. I’d say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn’t have to be today. But when I know that something is perishable and can’t last forever, I look at it with a feeling not just of joy but of compassion as well.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I had to become a fool, to find Atman in me again. I had to sin, to be able to live again. Where else might my path lead me to? It is foolish, this path, it moves in loops, perhaps it is going around in a circle. Let it go as it likes, I want to to take it.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “He had very few doubts, and when the facts contradicted his views on life, he shut his eyes in disapproval.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One’s born and at once one is guilty.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I closed my eyes obediently; I felt a light kiss on my lips, on which there was always a little accumulation of blood that wouldn’t decrease. And then I fell asleep.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Forgive me, father, I am not certain what my own wishes are. I shall always take pleasure in study, how could it be otherwise? But I do not believe that my life will be limited to study. A man’s wishes may not always determine his destiny, his mission; perhaps there are other predetermining factors.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “When someone is seeking,’ said Siddhartha, ’it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart. On.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Obeying is like eating and drinking. There’s nothing like it if you’ve been without it for too long.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I am curious to see all the same just how much a man can endure. If the limit of what is bearable is reached, I have only to open the door to escape.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “My lie has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “No, my dear, how should I be sad? I, who have been rich and happy, have become even richer and happier now. My son has been given to me.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Disclosing his wound to this listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker – no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “He lost himself a thousand times and for days one end he dwelt in nonbeing. But although the paths took him away from self, in the end they always led back to it.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “My God, rather than come to such a pass it would have been better for the Jews and every one else, let alone the Egyptians, to have perished in those days and forthwith of a violent and becoming death instead of this dismal pretence of dying by inches that we go in for today. Yes indeed!”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “No person has ever been completely himself, but each one strives to become so, some gropingly, others more lucidly, according to his abilities. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “For every true statement there is an opposite one that is also true; that language and the confines of time lead people to adhere to one fixed belief that does not account for the fullness of the truth. Because nature works in a self-sustaining cycle, every entity carries in it the potential for its opposite and so the world must always be considered complete.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Some day you will think of what I am going to say to you now: our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.”
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