The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
Hermann HesseEvery natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
Hermann HesseI realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Hermann HesseHe saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.
Hermann HesseThere is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse