Quotes Tagged With :hesse

And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble....

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages....

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now....

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is,....

He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the....

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and....

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart....

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending....