Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 10

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• Happiness is love, nothing else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

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• Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

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  Witty, Men, Thinking

  "Steppenwolf". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 15-16, 1927.

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

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  Truth, Opposites, One Sided

  "Siddhartha: An Indian Tale".

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• He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

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  Men, Objectivity, Shining

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

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  Dream, Stars, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.7, Om Books International

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

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  Form, Like Me, Mortals

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

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• He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

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  Suffering, Littles, Sake

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• a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

  Hermann Hesse

  Holy, Persons

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

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• A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.

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  Strong, Mad, Normal

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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

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  Regret, Thousand, Ready

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• 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.

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  Past, Perfect, Meditation

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

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

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  Struggle, Bless

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

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• 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.

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  Home, Joy, World

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

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• The opposite of every truth is just as true.

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  Opposites, Truth Is

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Understanding, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1959). “Goldmund”

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

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  Inspirational, Stupid, Writing

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

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• A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

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  Lightning, Strikes, Steppenwolf

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

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• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

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  Mother, Path, Steps

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

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• Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

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  Able, Way, Certain

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• 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

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  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

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• Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

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  Children, Justice, Understanding

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “The Journey to the East: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

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

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  Faith, Mean, Order

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

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• The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

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  Beautiful, Simple, World

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.37, Om Books International

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• 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

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  Children, Father, Eye

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• They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

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  Voice, Water, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.82, Om Books International

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