Quote: Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: 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]
Quote: One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: 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]
Quote: You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: Love is stronger than violence. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: The truth is lived, not taught. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: 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]
Quote: If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. [Hermann Hesse]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]