Hermann Hesse Quotes

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse

Best, Insane, Pretend

The truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse

Truth, Lived, Taught

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann Hesse

Cannot, Leader, Themselves

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse

Life, Love, Great

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse

Reality, Meaning, Behind

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Hermann Hesse

Love, Cannot, Secret

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Smile, Woman

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

Faith, History, Study

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Hermann Hesse

Someone, Ourselves, Within

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse

Knowledge, Learning, Friend

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Hermann Hesse

Nature, Men, Live

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Biography

Nationality: German

Born: July 2, 1877

Died: August 9, 1962

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