1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Some day you will think of what I am going to say to you now: our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

بودا برخاست و رفت و نگاه او و نیمه تبسمش در خاطره سیذارتا برای همیشه نقش بست. وی فکر گرد که من دیگر هیچگاه مردی را بدینگونه تبسم و نگاه کند و این طور بنشیند نخواهم دید. من هم می خواهم که بدان شکل باشم. بدانگونه تبسم کنم و بدانگونه بنشینم، آن قدر آزاد، وارسته، صاف، ساده، کودک وار و مرموز باشم. شخص در صورتی می تواند بدین شکل در آید و یا بدینگونه راه برود که خود را مسخر کرده باشد، من نیز خود را تسخیر خواهم کرد.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.