Hermann Hesse Quotes

"The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility."
-Hermann Hesse

"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure."
-Hermann Hesse

"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."
-Hermann Hesse

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
-Hermann Hesse

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
-Hermann Hesse in Sanity quotes.

"He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature."
-Hermann Hesse

"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
-Hermann Hesse in People quotes.

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
-Hermann Hesse in Words quotes.

"It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard."
-Hermann Hesse

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
-Hermann Hesse

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
-Hermann Hesse

"There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself."
-Hermann Hesse

"Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them."
-Hermann Hesse

"The truth is lived, not taught."
-Hermann Hesse