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
past rivers siddhartha
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
real self siddhartha
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
siddhartha literature too-much
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
greatness siddhartha speech
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
soul siddhartha world
Your soul is the whole world.
siddhartha secret want
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
siddhartha given greater
He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
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.
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.
people secret-love siddhartha
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
heart order siddhartha
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.
hate hatred siddhartha
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
siddhartha together unbroken
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
inspirational siddhartha
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.