Herman Hesse

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

There was once a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Jedynie miłość nadaje sens życiu. Dlatego im bardziej zdolni będziemy do miłości i dawania siebie innym, tym bardziej sensowne będzie nasze życie.

Mądrość nie jest łatwa do pojęcia. Mądrość, którą mądry człowiek stara się przekazać zawsze brzmi jak głupstwo.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Większość ludzi jest jak opadłe liście, które rozwiewa wiatr. Krążą w powietrzu, a potem spadają na ziemię. Ale nieliczni są jak gwiazdy, które poruszają się po ustalonym kursie, gdzie nie może ich dosięgnąć wiatr. Mają prawo i kierunek w sobie.

Most people are like a falling leaf, which is blown and is turning around through the air, and wavers, and tumbles to the ground. But others, a few, are like stars, they go on a fixed course, no wind reaches them, in themselves they have their law and their course.

Mądrości nie można przekazać. Wiedza, którą próbuje przekazywać mędrzec, brzmi zawsze jak głupota.