“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.” Hermann Hesse
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.” Hermann Hesse
“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?” Hermann Hesse
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.” Hermann Hesse
“Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.” Hermann Hesse
“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.” Hermann Hesse
“Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.” Hermann Hesse
“One never reaches home… But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” Hermann Hesse
