60 inspiring phrases of Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (1877 - 1962) He was an important writer, poet, novelist and painter of German origin. His best known works are Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores the search for authenticity, self -knowledge and spirituality of an individual. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

He wrote more than forty volumes between novels, stories, poems and meditations, of which more than 30 million copies have been sold. Until the centenary of his birth, more than 200 doctoral theses had been written, about 5000 articles and 50 books about his life. By then, he was also the most read European in the United States and Japan, and his books have been translated into more than 40 languages, without counting Hindu dialects.

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Famous Quotes by Hermann Hesse

The soft is stronger than hard, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than violence.

Inside you there is a stillness and a sanctuary that you can retire at any time and be yourself.

Some of us think that clinging makes us strong; But sometimes it is to release what strengthens us.

Happiness is love, not anything else. The one who knows how to love is happy.

What could tell you that it would be value, except that you may look too much, that as a result of your search you cannot find?

As body everyone is single; As a soul, never.

The truth is lived, it is not taught.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.

Our mind is able to pass beyond the dividing line that we have drawn to it. Beyond the opposite pairs in which the world consists, other new perceptions begin.

Theory is the knowledge that does not work. The practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Each experience has its magic element.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, disturbances and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way, all lack of respect for life, all courage, indifference, all contempt is nothing other than kill.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why many people live an unreal life. They confuse external images by reality and never allow the world within them to affirm.

It is possible for one to never transgress even a law and remain a bastard.

Wisdom is nothing more than a soul preparation, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing unity thoughts at every moment of life.

The bird fights to get out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who is going to be born must destroy a world.

Reality and meaning were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

It is not our purpose to become our neighbor, is to recognize each other, learn to see the other and honor him for what it is.

Maybe people like us can't love. Common people can, that is their secret.

Those who cannot think or assume responsibilities for themselves, need and cry out for a leader.

They are often the most deserved people who cannot avoid loving those who destroy them.

You never get home, but where friendly paths cross the whole world seems home for a while.

Eternity is just a moment, which reaches us just to tell a joke.

People with courage and character always seem sinister for others.

All men are prepared to achieve the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

I have always believed, and I still believe that any good or bad fortune that comes to us can always make sense and transform it into some value.

I live in my dreams, that's what you feel. Other people live in dreams, but not in yours. That is the difference.

You are just afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never surrendered themselves.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Intelligence is good, patience is better.

Death call is a love call. Death can be sweet if we respond affirmatively, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Beauty does not bring happiness to those who possess it, but who loves and admires it.

The life of each man represents a path to himself.

Do not say any feeling that is small or unworthy. We do not live on anything other than our poor, beautiful and magnificent feelings, and each of them against which we commit an injustice is a star that we turn off.

Again and again he clings to the things he has taken love and thinks that it is loyalty, but it's just lazy.

Youth ends when selfishness does it. Maturity begins when one lives for others.

The life of each man is a path to himself, the rehearsal of a route, the sketch of a path.

The practice should be the product of reflection, not unlike.

When someone is afraid it is because we have granted that someone's power over us.

Make bad verses of more happiness than reading the most beautiful verses.

When we look for someone, we look in our environment something that is within all.

When we hate someone, we hate in his image something that is within us.

Only within you there is that other reality that you long for.

Love for God is not always the same as love for good.

Only the ideas that we really live have value.

I wanted just trying to live what I tended to sprout spontaneously from me, why would it be so difficult?

Love your suffering. Do not resist, do not run away from him. It is just your aversion to that that hurts, nothing more.

Soledad is the same as independence, he had desired and conquered in the course of long years. It was cold, oh yes!, But also still, wonderfully still and large as the cold and silent space in which the stars revolve.

The real profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

When you like someone, you like despite their failures. When you love someone, you love him with his faults.

Who wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of nonsense, does not find home in this trivial world of ours.

You are willing to die, cowardly, but not to live.

Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Studying history means submitting to chaos and at the same time conserving faith in order and meaning.

You have to learn to laugh, to achieve superior humor, stop taking too seriously.

Divinity is in you, not in concepts or books.

The bourgeois prefer comfort to pleasure, convenience to freedom and a pleasant temperature to the mortal and consumer inner fire.

What you call passion is not spiritual strength, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

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

When it comes to a insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

For the first time in my life I tried death and death bitter me, because death is birth, it is the fear and fear of terrible renewal.

I have been a man who seeks and still still, but I no longer look in the stars and in the books, but in the teachings of my blood.