Hermann Hesse Quotes


27 quotes:

"Wisdom is not communicable."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"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."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and cr"
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Human Nature Quotes
"You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: History And Historians Quotes
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us"
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Hate Quotes
"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness"
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Learning Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Responsibility Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"The truth is lived, not taught."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Truth Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Words Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Value Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"It 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."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Honor Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Home Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Life Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Eternity Quotes German Novelist Quotes
"Love is stronger than violence."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Cute Love Quotes Sweet Love Quotes
"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."
Author: Hesse Quotes Category: Comfort Quotes Middle Class Quotes

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