Hermann Hesse Quotes

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn`t part of ourselves doesn`t disturb us.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Solitude is independence.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire

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.