Hermann Hesse Quotes

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse

Strength, Strong, Sometimes

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse

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.
Hermann Hesse

Hate, Yourself, Person

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Talent, Object

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Hermann Hesse

Alone, Single, Soul

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.
Hermann Hesse

Relationship, Him, Become

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse

Words, Different, Thoughts

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse

Wisdom, Knowledge, Live

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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Time, Home, Friendly

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.
Hermann Hesse

Mind, Line, Beyond

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann Hesse

Special, Again, Once

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

Courage, Character, Rest

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann Hesse

Different, Soon, Loud

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.
Hermann Hesse

Find, Cannot, Value

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.
Hermann Hesse

Life, Live, Reality

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann Hesse

Single, Law, Possible

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse

Nothing, Eat, Fasting

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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History, Writing, Humanity

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
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Whole, Spirit, Individual

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Hermann Hesse

Live, Value, Ideas

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann Hesse

Yourself, Afraid, Themselves

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Hermann Hesse

Men, Prepared, Accomplish

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse

Fire, Liberty, Pleasure

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse

Long, Enough, Moment

Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse

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Biography

Nationality: German

Born: July 2, 1877

Died: August 9, 1962

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