Hermann Hesse

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

“Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.”

“Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time.”

“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.”

“The opposite of every truth is just as true.”

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena cross, only once in this way and never again.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.”

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking.”

“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.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.”

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

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”

“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.”

“Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object.”

“To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.”