Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
German-born Swiss novelist and poet
Category: Poets (Contemporary)
Lived from: 1877-1962
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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Love is stronger than violence.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
German-born Swiss novelist and poet 1877-1962
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