Author of quotes: Hermann Hesse. Page 1

A certain gift lay dormant in Josephus, which over the years, when his hair turned white, reached its peak. It was the gift of listening.

They preferred to pay not with trust and love, but with money and goods. They deceived each other and expected that they themselves would be deceived.

He also learned, however, that an inquisitive, spiritual person does not dare to lose love, that the desires and stupidities of people must be met halfway, but one must not submit, that from a sage to a charlatan, from a priest to a buffoon, from fraternal help to parasitic gain there is only one step.

People of the spirit evoke some amazing indignation and disgust in others, respecting them from afar and turning to them when necessary; they not only do not love them and do not look at them as equals, but avoid them in every possible way.

In troubled times of general misfortune, a person is the more useful the more his life and thoughts are directed towards spiritual and super-personal things, the more he has learned to honor, observe, bow, serve and sacrifice.

They did not separate themselves from nature, and did not try to forcefully penetrate its secrets, they never opposed themselves to it and without being at odds with it, they always felt themselves to be part of it and were reverently devoted to it. They could not treat the forces of nature with anything other than fear. Fear reigned over people's lives.

So there must be some kind of center in the gigantic network of connections, from which one can comprehend everything, see and determine everything that was and everything that will be.

The curse of the current generation.

There is no measure in grief, and there is no measure in joy.

Their invisible face is always calm.

And the temple, and the song, and love, and the word.

To him their pattern would be wonderful and strange.

Three dimensions will be too much.

We don't know what he expects from us.