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Herman Hesse Quotes

Herman Hesse quotes

Deutsch Author, Writer July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962

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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! Herman Hesse
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace. Herman Hesse
They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours. Herman Hesse
Oh, was not then all suffering time, was not all self-torment and fear time, did not everything difficult, everything hostile in the world vanish, was it not overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as one could think it out of existence? Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good...."
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. Herman Hesse
Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter Herman Hesse
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one. Herman Hesse
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned..."
To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came..."
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Herman Hesse
A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real. Herman Hesse
Doesn't your learning reveal to you that the reason why I please you and mean so much to you is because I am a kind of looking-glass for you, because there is something in me that answers you and understands you? Really, we ought all to be such looking-glasses to each other and answer and correspond to each other. Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he..."
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. Herman Hesse
When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and the divine. Herman Hesse
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion. Herman Hesse

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