Hermann Hesse Quotes

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Solitude is independence.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Your soul is the whole world.

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.

Knowledge 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.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.