My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Hermann HesseIn any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
Hermann HesseYou show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
Hermann HesseWe kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.
Hermann HesseEvery 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 intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Hermann Hesse