Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Love Is

Rocks

Water

… let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: ‘Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.’

Republic

Two

University Professors

…and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people – the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.

Expression

People

Soul

…and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

Heart

Intellect

Soul

…As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

Games

Musical

Trying

…Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

Breathing

Ego

Heaven

…Haller’s sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

Generations

Mean

Soul

“For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself.”

Book

Mean

Writing

“You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?” “Maybe,” said Siddhartha wearily. “I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret.”

Art

People

Practice

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

Children

Eye

Father

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All Things

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Artist

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Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

… let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: ‘Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.’

…and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people – the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.

…and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

“You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?” “Maybe,” said Siddhartha wearily. “I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret.”

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

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