Quotes by : Hermann Hesse

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own....

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites....

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete....

At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens,....

Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable....

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also....

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance....

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with....

If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves....