Hermann Hesse Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Real, Men

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1922.

• His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, Doe, Saint

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

• A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Girl, Silly, Sleep

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.101, Macmillan

• Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Saint, Samsara

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

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