30 phrases by Hermann Hesse that value the artist’s beautiful work

Wisdom cannot be imparted. The wisdom that a sage tries to impart sounds more like madness.

If I know what love is, it’s because of you.

I don’t think I’m a man who knows. I have always been a man who seeks, but now I no longer seek in the stars and in books: I begin to hear the teachings that my blood murmurs in me.

It is always good to be aware that inside us there is someone who knows everything.

Money and power and all the things people shoot for are worth little to the man who has found himself.

One shouldn’t talk about animals that way. They can be terrible at times, but they are certainly much fairer than men.

The running of the waters, the passing of the clouds, the children’s play, the blood in the veins. This is the music of God.

No one can see or understand in others what he himself has not experienced.

If you hate a person, you hate something about him that is also part of you. What is not part of us does not bother us.

Every man’s life is a path for himself, the rehearsal of a path, the outline of a path.

I can give you nothing that does not already exist in you. I cannot open up to you another world of images than the one in your own soul. I can give you nothing but the opportunity, the impulse, the key. I will help you to make your own world visible, and that is all.

When someone finds something he truly needs, it is not chance that provides it, but the person himself. Your own desire and your own need drive you there.

When you really want something and with enough strength, you always end up getting it.

Anything feels a little smaller when said out loud.

Happiness is love, nothing more. He who knows how to love is happy.

There is only happiness if we don’t demand anything from tomorrow and accept from today, with gratitude, whatever it brings us. The magic hour always arrives.

Don’t say that no feeling is small or unworthy. We don’t live on anything other than our poor, beautiful and magnificent feelings, and every injustice we commit with one of them is a star that we erase.

Reading a book is for the good reader to know the person and the way of thinking of someone who is strange to him. It’s trying to understand him and, whenever possible, make him a friend.

For the art of living, it is necessary to know the art of listening, smiling and being patient… always.

There are people who declare themselves perfect, but only because they demand little of themselves.

I’m only interested in the steps I had to take in life to reach myself.

There is nothing so bad, wild and cruel in nature as normal men.

My story is, however, to me, more important than any poet’s is to him, for it is my own story, and it is the story of a man – not of an invented character, possible or nonexistent in any other way. , but that of a real, unique and living man.

No man has ever become completely himself; but all aspire to be, some obscurely, others more clearly, each as he can.

I just wanted to try to live what came out of myself. Why was this so difficult?

Ingenious words have no value whatsoever. They can only drive you away from ourselves. And turning away from yourself is a sin. It is necessary to know how to close in on oneself, like the tortoise.

The part of my life that I had to wrest from the dark powers I offered as a sacrifice to the luminous powers. My end was not pleasure, but purity; not happiness, but spirituality and beauty.