Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.
Hermann HesseA thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
Hermann HesseOur god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
Hermann HesseTo study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse