In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover. Hermann Hesse demand strength strong What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Hermann Hesse passion soul spiritual Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. Hermann Hesse law tree life You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Hermann Hesse laughter pain opposites My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. Hermann Hesse siddhartha real self A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. Hermann Hesse success men world madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom Hermann Hesse steppenwolf madness higher What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. Hermann Hesse siddhartha literature would-be Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. Hermann Hesse grace world art But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this! Hermann Hesse soul secret water Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them. Hermann Hesse passion breakup children Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. Hermann Hesse light men night As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. Hermann Hesse being-single soul literature For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. Hermann Hesse lonely tree men I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. Hermann Hesse today men world At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense. Hermann Hesse dream sweet love For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Hermann Hesse optimism contentment class Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. Hermann Hesse independent law thinking Om is the bow, the arrow is soul. Hermann Hesse bows arrows soul How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. Hermann Hesse beautiful world
