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Herman Hesse Quotes

Herman Hesse quotes

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

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...science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a..."
lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part..."
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the..."
He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. Herman Hesse
You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you? Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to..."
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the..."
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Herman Hesse
See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man!" and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all progress towards the sublime, the great and the enduring in man fell away and became a monkey's trick! Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "I can think. I can wait. I can fast."
I can think. I can wait. I can fast. Herman Hesse
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. Herman Hesse
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. Herman Hesse
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child..."
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "In my brain were stored a thousand pictures."
In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. Herman Hesse
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. Herman Hesse

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