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
struggle bless
We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
spring thinking exception
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
imagination remember strict
Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
today criminals tomorrow
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
order demand chaos
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
differences identification
Friendship is identification and difference
believe islands leaving
For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.
thinking goal waiting
Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
teacher giving soldier
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
fine
Is not every life, every work fine?
men love-is capable
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
heart taught-us rivers
The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul...
inspirational inspiring mean
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
feelings contentment harmony
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.