Quotes Tagged With :hesse

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

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

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, who ever knows how to listen to them, can....

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

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

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means.....

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

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

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