“madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
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Famous Hermann Hesse Quotes
“Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”
“God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.”
“The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.”
Source: Der Steppenwolf
“Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
Source: Siddhartha
“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“Each man's life represents a road toward himself.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life”
“Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
“Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale