Hermann Hesse

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be…

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we…

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified…

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object…

The truth is lived, not taught…

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning…

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never…

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home…

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these…

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

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call…

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest…

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may…

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to…

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other…