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 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 HESSEYou can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
HERMANN HESSEThere 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 HESSEA house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us.
HERMANN HESSEThe 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. The God’s name is Abraxas.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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 HESSEYou 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 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 HESSEAll life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSENot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSE