Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hessewas a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 July 1877
CityCalw, Germany
CountryGermany
love doe admire
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
love encouragement hurt
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
disappointment suffering vex
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
feet waiting steps
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
stronger reason
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
strength strong demand
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
love-is rocks water
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
lonely men tree
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.
helping life-is guilty
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
baby joy new-life
Words can not express the joy of new life.
time ocean past
Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.
being-single soul body
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
home passion creative
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
inspirational
Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.