He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
Hermann HesseEvery path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
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 HessePeople know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
Hermann Hesse