The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse bourgeoiscomfortconsume Change image and share on social
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Hermann Hesse communicatefindfortify Change image and share on social
Only the ideas that we really live have any value. Hermann Hesse idealive Change image and share on social
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. Hermann Hesse assertcontainimage Change image and share on social
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Hermann Hesse eatfastintelligent Change image and share on social
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. Hermann Hesse bastardlawsingle Change image and share on social
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. Hermann Hesse hidemeanreality Change image and share on social
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. Hermann Hesse bodysinglesoul Change image and share on social
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. Hermann Hesse intersectmanphenomenon share on social
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. Hermann Hesse bearbirddestroy Change image and share on social
