Quotes Tagged With :hesse

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it....

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope....

An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his....

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few....

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....

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