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Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 9

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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Men, Way Forward, Matter

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

Each Day, World, Remains

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Errors, Self, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.9, Om Books International

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

Self, Excellence, Doe

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Form, Like Me, Mortals

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.8, Om Books International

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

Mean, Eye, Thinking

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Regret, Thousand, Ready

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Truth, Opposites, One Sided

"Siddhartha: An Indian Tale".

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

Struggle, Bless

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

Life, Years, Long

"Peter Camenzind". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1904.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

Past, Perfect, Meditation

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

Children, Heart, Eye

"Siddhartha".

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Thinking, Goal, Waiting

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1484, Google Publishing

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

Rain, Sunshine, Animal

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Fate, Destiny, What Matters

Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Lightning, Strikes, Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

Children, Father, Eye

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Home, Joy, World

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

People, Stupidity, Demand

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

Men, Understanding, Soul

Hermann Hesse (1959). “Goldmund”

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

Inspirational, Stupid, Writing

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.109, Om Books International

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Opposites, Truth Is

Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.67, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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

Faith, Mean, Order

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

Home, Tree, Joy

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

Happiness is love, nothing else.

Love, Happiness, Marriage

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