1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal.

All of the waves and waters hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water turned into vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew.

Be aware of too much wisdom!

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement – yet it had been the truth.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn’t inside us can’t excite us.

Teaching and surrounded by disciples, he was wandering through the land, with no property, with no home, with no wife, in the yellow cloak of an ascetic, but with a serene brow: a blissful man.

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.