Hermann Hesse quotes - page 10

Listen my friend! I am a sinner and you are a sinner, but someday the sinner will be Brahma again, will someday attain Nirvana, will someday become a Buddha. (Hermann Hesse)
Desire to sleep has vanished now, Spring has arrived in the night In the wake of a storm. View quote
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They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. View quote
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. View quote
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Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. View quote
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The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born. View quote
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Each person must stand on his own feet. View quote
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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. View quote
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In all beginnings dwells a magic force. View quote
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Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept. View quote
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The Glass Bead Game, formerly the specialized entertainment of mathematicians in one era, philologists or musicians in another era, now more and more cast its spell upon all true intellectuals. (Hermann Hesse)
Certainly you shouldn't go kill somebody or rape a girl, no! But you haven't reached the point where you can understand the actual meaning of "permitted" and "forbidden." You've only sensed part of the truth. View quote
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The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machinemade article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again. View quote
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One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. View quote
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I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge. View quote
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When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. View quote
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For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. View quote
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At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers the one I was destined to be most strongly affected and dominated by was music. View quote
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All the tasks are in themselves small, but each one has to be carried out at its proper hour, and the day has far more tasks than hours. View quote
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But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us. View quote
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No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that - one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can. (Hermann Hesse)
One can call these moments creative, because they seem to give a feeling of union with the creator, and while they last, one is sensible of everything being necessary, even what is seemingly fortuitous. It is what the mystics call union with God. View quote
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We ought not to consider the opinions of those sects as naïve as they appear from the rationalist point of view. View quote
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It was my destiny to join in a great experience. Having had the good fortune to belong to the League, I was permitted to be a participant in unique journey. View quote
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There are a great many suicides to which this thought imparts a common strength. View quote
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