Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
HERMANN HESSEBecause the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEOpinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSEThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
HERMANN HESSEIf I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSEI realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSE