“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.””
Quotes by Hermann Hesse
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.””
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.””
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.””
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.””
“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.””
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist whose literary career spanned several decades and was marked by a profound exploration of the self and spirituality. Born in 1877, Hesse's early life...