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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

History, Chaos, Faith, Meaning, Intellectual Pursuit, Human Understanding

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining

Hermann Hesse’s Quotes On Topics

More Hermann Hesse Quotes

“All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.”

Humor, Serious, Self, Intellectual Perspective, Existential Lightness, Personal Wisdom

“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

Immortals, Seriousness, Eternity, Temporal Perspective, Spiritual Wisdom, Cosmic Humor

“I closed my eyes obediently; I felt a light kiss on my lips, on which there was always a little accumulation of blood that wouldn't decrease. And then I fell asleep.”

Eyes, Kiss, Blood, Sensory Experience, Intimate Moment, Physical Detail

“Your soul is the whole world.”

Soul, Wholeness, Interconnectedness, Spirituality, Inner Universe, Cosmic Unity

“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.”

Knowledge, Essence, Understanding, Existence, Discovery, Awareness

“I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”

Steppenwolf, Beast, World, Personal Identity, Social Alienation, Existential Struggle

“Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.”

Love, Certainty, Mover, Emotional Strength, Relational Wisdom, Philosophical Insight

“Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.”

Youth, Disillusionment, Light, Loss, Reason, Existential Journey

“That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits.”

Leaves, Tree, Waits, Natural Cycles, Inner Resilience, Patient Endurance

“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”

Communication, Expression, Perception, Voice, Interpretation, Meaning

“In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.”

Brain, Pictures, Thousand, Mental Imagery, Memory Capacity, Inner Richness

“To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.”

Causes, Feelings, Knowledge, Intellectual Growth, Emotional Maturity, Cognitive Process

“I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.”

Adulthood, Uncertainty, Aimlessness, Maturity, Life Purpose, Existential Crisis

“For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.”

Mortality, Rebirth, Transformation, Fear, Existential Crisis, Life Cycle

“Animals are sad as a rule. And when a man is sad – I don’t mean because he has a toothache or has lost some money, but because he sees, for once in a way, how it all is with life and everything, and is sad in earnest – he always looks a little like an animal. He looks not only sad, but more right and more beautiful than usual.”

Sadness, Humanity, Empathy, Observation, Beauty In Sorrow, Emotional Depth

“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

Eternity, Moment, Joke, Temporal Perspective, Cosmic Humor, Philosophical Paradox

“You could observe people’s folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way.”

Folly, Observation, Acceptance, Individuality, Empathy, Human Behavior

“I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.”

Divine Experience, Surrender, Fearlessness, Acceptance, Transcendence, Spiritual Awakening

“The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is.”

World, Alone, Loneliness, Personal Contentment, Existential Acceptance, Life Appreciation

“Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.”

Reality, Long, Soul, Inner Truth, Self-discovery, Spiritual Guidance