Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSE
HERMANN HESSE
Hermann Hesse on men
“Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.”
More Hermann Hesse quotes
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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