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Herman Hesse Quotes

Herman Hesse quotes

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

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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it..."
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash..."
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. Herman Hesse
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts."
Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts. Herman Hesse
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. Herman Hesse
When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. Herman Hesse
He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death. Herman Hesse
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. Herman Hesse
Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts? Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "One must find the source within one's own Self, one must..."
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for..."
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Without words, without writing and without books there would..."
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Herman Hesse
No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, to every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in..."
We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian Herman Hesse

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