Words can not express the joy of new life. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. Hermann Hesse communication different littles a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. Hermann Hesse holy persons The tree does not die, it waits. Hermann Hesse waiting doe tree To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Hermann Hesse faith order mean What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding? Hermann Hesse should-i too-much should Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. Hermann Hesse samsara saint men The river is everywhere. Hermann Hesse rivers In the beginning was the myth. Hermann Hesse myth Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? Hermann Hesse like-me mortals form A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes. Hermann Hesse steppenwolf lightning strikes Is not every life, every work fine? Hermann Hesse fine We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us. Hermann Hesse bless struggle Love of God is not always the same as love of good. Hermann Hesse piety god-love Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap Hermann Hesse real character two Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. Hermann Hesse gestures morality important Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear? Hermann Hesse proud self years Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. Hermann Hesse excellence self doe You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie. Hermann Hesse mean lying reality Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything. Hermann Hesse eye should dream His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life. Hermann Hesse full-circle circles taken