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
long stories way
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
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.
dream way easy
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
life giving way
That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.
men way-forward matter
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
inspirational men way
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
beautiful simple way
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
children way innocence
The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.
men way synchronicity
Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself
book way gone
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
able way certain
Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.
perfection way strive
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
finding indeed means perhaps seeking striving towards worthy
Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
clear poet year
From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.