11 beautiful quotes by Hermann Hesse. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Hermann Hesse
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ......
“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important...
“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachin...
“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it cea...
“She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplende...
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a ...
“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
“Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melt...
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at...
