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
faith mean order
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
dream duration mysterious
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
inspirational children writing
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
humility men judging
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
beautiful philosophy gita
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
soul siddhartha world
Your soul is the whole world.
long moments enough
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
men intelligent fasting
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
journey men discovery
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
believe men essence
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, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
dancing substance world
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
inspirational dream differences
I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
voice evil goal
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
siddhartha secret want
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.