Hermann Hesse Sites Quotations

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.