People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. Hermann Hesse chaos demand order The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. Hermann Hesse simple beautiful world What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life. Hermann Hesse flight pain self Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. Hermann Hesse understanding grace art Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions. Hermann Hesse squares wise games At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological. Hermann Hesse player games two If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything. Hermann Hesse skirts feet writing Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence Hermann Hesse siddhartha reality What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. Hermann Hesse exaltation imagination world That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that. Hermann Hesse giving life way You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you? Hermann Hesse should want people The opposite of every truth is just as true. Hermann Hesse truth-is opposites To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. Hermann Hesse again-and-again achieve impossible To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment. Hermann Hesse enlightenment hours teaching He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new. Hermann Hesse saws moments water It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment. Hermann Hesse taste lying world At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one. Hermann Hesse saws dying men I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. Hermann Hesse men believe children The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph. Hermann Hesse eye blue men No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that. Hermann Hesse independence religious sorry
