1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Nous restreignons beaucoup trop les limites de notre personnalité. Nous lui attribuons seulement ce que nous discernons d’individuel, ce que nous trouvons différent. Mais chacun de nous contient l’univers tout entier et, de même que notre corps porte en lui tous les degrés de l’évolution, à partir du poisson et beaucoup plus loin encore, ainsi, dans notre âme, revit tout ce qui a vécu dans toutes les âmes humaines.

L’on doit pouvoir se retirer en soi, comme une tortue dans sa carapace.

Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in the evenings.

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

The bandaging hurt. Everything that has happened to me since has hurt. But sometimes, when I find the key and climb fully down into myself, where the images of destiny slumber in their dark mirrror, I need only bend down over the black mirror and I see my own image, which now looks exactly like Him, Him, my friend and my guide.

Insofar as I have come to know people, we all have a slight tendency, especially while we are young, to confuse our wishes with predestination.

The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly—yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man’s treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person.

And so every one of us has to find out for himself what is allowed and what is forbidden--forbidden for him. It is entirely possible to never do anything forbidden at all and still be an absolute scroundel. And vice versa.

Jis tavim gėrėsis, išmoks tave mintinai.