Famous Quotes by Hermann Hesse

  • To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.... More
  • You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and... More
  • What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this... More
  • One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for... More
  • The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we... More
  • In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each... More
  • I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after... More
  • Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and... More
  • History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for... More
  • What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and... More
  • The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he... More

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