Quotes by Hermann Hesse - AI Generated Quotes

Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

-Hermann Hesse

alone

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

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courage

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

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death

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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faith

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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good

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

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happiness

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

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happiness

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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history

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

-Hermann Hesse

history

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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home

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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knowledge

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

-Hermann Hesse

knowledge

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

-Hermann Hesse

learning

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

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nature

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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relationship

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

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smile

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

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strength

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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time

The truth is lived, not taught.

-Hermann Hesse

truth

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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