Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 6

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• Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Greatness, Siddhartha, Speech

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1538, Google Publishing

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• Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

  Hermann Hesse

  God Love, Piety

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• Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Night, Men, Light

  "Gertrud". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1910.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Unique, Men

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

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• Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

  Hermann Hesse

  Arrows, Soul, Bows

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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• All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Dying, Life Is

  "Klingsor's Last Summer".

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• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Real, Evil

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

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• Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Truth, Father

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

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• Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Writing, Humanity

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• You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Together, Unbroken

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.28, Om Books International

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• A tree says:
  My strength is trust.
  I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me.
  I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else.
  I trust that God is in me.
  I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Spring

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

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• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Depression, Suicide, Children

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

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• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, War, Our World

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• I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Self, Difficult, Accord

  "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Book, Teaching

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

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• You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Coward, Steppenwolf, Willing

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.216, Macmillan

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• A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Wind, Tree

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

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• But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

  Hermann Hesse

  Water, Soul, Secret

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• He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

  Hermann Hesse

  Water, Saws, Moments

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

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• For 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

  Class, Optimism, Contentment

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

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• Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Law, Tree

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

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• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

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

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