Quotes by : Herman Hesse

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing....

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy....

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these....

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence,....

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to....

But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life....

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully....