You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; Hermann Hesse finals done steps Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet Hermann Hesse positive inspirational life Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse being-alone creativity solitude Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. Hermann Hesse violence doe firsts I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace. Hermann Hesse suicide depression children . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. Hermann Hesse rocks love-is water Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke Hermann Hesse moments eternity long I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. Hermann Hesse vex disappointment suffering Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. Hermann Hesse oneness art thinking Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. Hermann Hesse siddhartha greatness speech The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans. Hermann Hesse our-world war peace Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. Hermann Hesse destiny work men He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion. Hermann Hesse passion heart rivers And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life. Hermann Hesse voice goal evil The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths. Hermann Hesse taught depth rivers If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Hermann Hesse real evil time Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. Hermann Hesse doubt believe hands Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. Hermann Hesse truth teacher father We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. Hermann Hesse dirt guides home A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. Hermann Hesse home tree looks
