The opposite of every truth is just as true.
Herman Hesse
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
Herman Hesse
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Herman Hesse
You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
Herman Hesse
Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
Herman Hesse
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
Herman Hesse
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Herman Hesse
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Herman Hesse
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Herman Hesse
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Herman Hesse
