Author of quotes: Hermann Hesse. Page 3

<...> nobody wants to avoid the next war ...

But what was needed was not knowledge, not understanding - not that I so desperately craved - but impressions, a decision, a push and a jump.

Well, I want to show you that there was no need to try hard. I understand you that way.

Well, thank God, I'm not your mother.

I apologize to you and your wife - tell her that I am schizophrenic. And at the same time, let me take my leave.

Oh my God, I thought all the time, why are we straining so hard?

<...> the owners did not even think that such a fiend of hell could sit in front of them, but this was exactly the case, this fiend of hell was me.

Without self-love, love for one's neighbor is impossible.

Your soul will find harmony with the world.

Maybe I'm crazy, I often thought, maybe I'm not like other people? But everything that made the other out and I have, with some diligence and effort, I could read Plato, able to understand chemical analysis. Only one thing I could not - out of the darkness hidden in me the purpose and to draw somewhere in front of him, as did others who knew exactly what they want to become a Professor or a judge, doctor or artist, but it will take time and it promises benefits. I so could not. Maybe I too will be ever something like that, but what do I know?

If the animal or person will direct all his attention and all his will for a specific goal, he will attain.

When thrown into the water stone, he hurries by the shortest route to the bottom. That's the way it is when Siddhartha has a goal, when he makes a decision. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world exactly a stone through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. The goal attracted him, for he does not allow his soul anything that could oppose the goal.

I was surprised to see that man differs from other phenomena of nature with his slippery, gelatinous sheath of lies that serves as a protection to him. I soon found the presence of this shell all my friends - the result of the fact that everyone feels the need to show him some personality, a certain clear-cut figure, although nobody knows their true essence. With a strange sense I found it in himself and for all abandoned their attempts to get to the core of the soul of a person. For most people, the shell was much more important than what she was hiding.

If it disappears forever, here no one will notice his absence. It was odd in this house. At any time and in any corner of the world he can build a Studio and dip into the hard work, but home, he will not find anywhere else. In fact, he knew about it long ago and didn't find anything wrong.