Hermann Hesse Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

  Hermann Hesse

  War, Eye, Disrespect

• Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Eye, Should

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.80, Macmillan

• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

• I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wisdom, Eye, Heart

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.74, Om Books International

• Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Eye, Men

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

• We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Religious, Educational, Eye

• It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Heart, Eye

  "Siddhartha".

• I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, World, Today

  "Siddhartha".

• All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 45-46, 1922.

• The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

• All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Night, Together

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

• She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

  Hermann Hesse

  Distance, Eye, Destiny

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

• A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Eye

• It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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