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
self difficult wanted
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
taken moving way
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.
lying psychology interpretation
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
siddhartha given greater
He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
spring intellectual world
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
inspirational courage character
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
beautiful world this-world
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.
harmony ifs demian
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.
voice water siddhartha
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
dream stars night
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.
writing blue black
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
wisdom yoga siddhartha
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
life wisdom art
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
book ideas taught
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.