Hermann Hesse quotes

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
- Hermann Hesse

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
- Hermann Hesse

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

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

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honour him for what he is.
- 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

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

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
- Hermann Hesse

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

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

The truth is lived, not taught.
- Hermann Hesse

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
- Hermann Hesse

Your soul is the whole world.
- Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
- Hermann Hesse

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.
- Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
- Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
- Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
- Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
- Hermann Hesse

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
- Hermann Hesse

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

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
- Hermann Hesse

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
- Hermann Hesse

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
- Hermann Hesse

Every experience has its element of magic.
- Hermann Hesse