Hermann Hesse Quotes

The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes. – Hermann Hesse

If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Hermann Hesse

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. – Hermann Hesse

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. – Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

People with a low self-image usually have a high opinion of other people’s opinions. – Hermann Hesse

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. – Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. – Hermann Hesse

The truth is lived and not taught. – Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Quotes part 2

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. – Hermann Hesse

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

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. – Hermann Hesse

Every human being has a language he speaks when he is born and is unforced, uninhibited, and sincere. – Hermann Hesse

I live in my dreams and I dream – the dreamer unknown. – Hermann Hesse

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. – Hermann Hesse

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. – Hermann Hesse

If you want to learn something about any human being, seek the source of their art. – Hermann Hesse

To be able to throw one’s intellect into the fire and be consumed is nothing less than greatness. – Hermann Hesse

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. – Hermann Hesse

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. – Hermann Hesse

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. – Hermann Hesse

An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. – Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us. – Hermann Hesse

Most men fear the devil not because he is free, but because he is free, and fear is his secret power. – Hermann Hesse

One kills himself only when forced to do something against his own will. – Hermann Hesse

The voices inside me are becoming stronger and I am getting to know myself better than ever before. – Hermann Hesse

To be able to find out who I am when somebody is watching over me, to find out what is going on inside me when I stand defenselessly before questions… that is what I call art. – Hermann Hesse

Opinions mean nothing; they exist only insofar as they convince people. – Hermann Hesse

The only reality we can ever truly know is the one that resides within us. – Hermann Hesse

One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. – Hermann Hesse

Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth’s evolution. – Hermann Hesse

The beginnings and ends of all human undertakings are untidy. – Hermann Hesse

You must find your dream, and the meaning of your life, in yourself. – Hermann Hesse

Each man had only one genuine vocation – to find the way to himself. – Hermann Hesse

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. – Hermann Hesse

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it. – Hermann Hesse

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. – Hermann Hesse

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Hermann Hesse

Time is not a reality, except in the extent that it is related to human beings. – Hermann Hesse

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. – Hermann Hesse

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Hermann Hesse

You are seeking to improve as a human being, to be born anew. To attain perfection, to make full use of your limitations and to make yourself available to the ideas of the spirit. – Hermann Hesse

Man is by nature a lover of justice; and when they have seen all they want, they are naturally disposed to do justice. – Hermann Hesse

The true profession of man is to find his way to himself. – Hermann Hesse