1. Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game which explore an individual's search for authenticity, more..

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Hermann Hesse: I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. #Wisdom

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#Home

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Hermann Hesse:If I know what love is, it is because of you. #Love

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#Love

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Hermann Hesse:The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish -- and it will. #Death and Dying

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Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. #Speech

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Hermann Hesse: The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. #Truth

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Hermann Hesse:Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. #Love

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Hermann Hesse:One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too. #Music

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Hermann Hesse:Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. #Modern and Modernism

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Hermann Hesse:Let us say that the freedom exists, but it is limited to the one unique act of choosing the profession. Afterward all freedom is over. When he begins his studies at the university, the doctor, lawyer, or engineer is forced into an extremely rigid curriculum which ends with a series of examinations. If he passes them, he receives his license and can thereafter pursue his profession in seeming freedom. But in doing so he becomes the slave of base powers; he is dependent on success, on money, on his ambition, his hunger for fame, on whether or not people like him. He must submit to elections, must earn money, must take part in the ruthless competition of castes, families, political parties, newspapers. In return he has the freedom to become successful and well-to-do, and to be hated by the unsuccessful, or vice versa. #Politicians and Politics

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Hermann Hesse:Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die. #Love

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Hermann Hesse:Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. #Books - Reading

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Hermann Hesse:Love of God is not always the same as love of good. #Love

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Hermann Hesse:We can understand each other, but each of us can only interpret himself. #Understanding

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Hermann Hesse:When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. #Goals

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#Writers and Writing

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Hermann Hesse:As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. #Soul

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Hermann Hesse:The 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. That God's name is Abraxas. #God

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Hermann Hesse: Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. #Reality

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