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About Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss poet and novelist
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature and is best known for novels such as Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game. His writing was shaped by his interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, as well as by his engagement with Jungian analysis. Across his fiction, he returns to the search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spiritual meaning.
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- “Cada época, cada cultura, cada costume e tradição tem seu próprio estilo, tem sua delicadeza e sua severidade…”Hermann Hesse
- “An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way f…”Hermann Hesse
- “When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will freq…”Hermann Hesse
- “At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was…”Hermann Hesse
Religion: more sayings
- “The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how…”Abel Ferrara
- “Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and hold…”James Martineau
- “The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the u…”Dennis Prager
More Wisdom quotes
- “She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl…”Louisa May Alcott
- “The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, yo…”Ryan Lilly
- “Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.”Grace Sara
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Books by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
2006
Der Steppenwolf
2002
Demian
2000
Das Glasperlenspiel
1990
Narziss und Goldmund
2003