Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
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.
More from Hermann Hesse (262 quotes) →Other sayings from Hermann Hesse
- “I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep some…”Hermann Hesse
- “He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned…”Hermann Hesse
- “Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”Hermann Hesse
- “Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?"…”Hermann Hesse
Explore Truth
- “There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”Nikolai Berdyaev
- “Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.”Debasish Mridha
- “[This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye an…”Ludwig Feuerbach
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
2006
Der Steppenwolf
2002
Demian
2000
Das Glasperlenspiel
1990
Narziss und Goldmund
2003