Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hessewas a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 July 1877
CityCalw, Germany
CountryGermany
teacher giving soldier
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
unity woods all-things
Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.
fine
Is not every life, every work fine?
suffering sorrow ends
Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
impossible achieve again-and-again
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
children self expression
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child 's soul with poetry every day.
suffering dying life-is
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.
differences identification
Friendship is identification and difference
lying mean reality
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.
important gestures morality
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
mean soul generations
...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.
running stars fall
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
love-is laughing siddhartha
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
dream real shadow
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.