Hermann Hesse Quotes About Literature
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
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