Hermann Hesse Quotes

• Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

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• I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.

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• I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

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• You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

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

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• Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

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• In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

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• Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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• Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

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• When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

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• Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

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• This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

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• The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

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

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• Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

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• Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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• It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

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• It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

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Hermann Hesse (65)

Birth:	2nd July, 1877
Death:	9th August, 1962
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Hermann Karl Hesse was born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany. He was a German novelist, poet and short story writer. His best-known works(novels) include: Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game. He wrote other novels include: Peter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, Gertrud, Rosshalde, Knulp, and Narcissus and Goldmund. He wrote several poems, including One Hour After Midnight. He wrote several short stories include: Strange News from Another Star and Kinderseele. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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