Hermann Hesse
Quotes by Hermann Hesse
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
— Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
— Hermann Hesse
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
— Hermann Hesse
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
— Hermann Hesse
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
— Hermann Hesse
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.
— Hermann Hesse
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.
— Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
— Hermann Hesse
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
— Hermann Hesse
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
— Hermann Hesse
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.
— Hermann Hesse
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
— Hermann Hesse
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.
— Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
— Hermann Hesse
The truth is lived, not taught.
— Hermann Hesse