Herman Hesse

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously…

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have…

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which…

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me…

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I…

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the…

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

It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the…

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful…

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of…

Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a…