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
life yoga reality
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
doubt should asks
Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
life hate hippie
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
people asking poor
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
happiness fulfilled great-happiness
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
home tree looks
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
perfect grace world
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
taken laughing steppenwolf
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
opposites mind literature
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
fire liberty comfort
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
love marriage
Happiness is love, nothing else.
motivational respect honor
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.
hate long soul
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
wise loneliness men
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.