When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
-
-
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
HERMANN HESSE -
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
HERMANN HESSE -
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
HERMANN HESSE -
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSE -
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
HERMANN HESSE -
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.
HERMANN HESSE -
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSE -
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
HERMANN HESSE -
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
HERMANN HESSE -
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSE -
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSE -
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSE -
Your soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSE -
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
HERMANN HESSE -
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSE