Hermann Hesse Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Book, Teaching

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

• Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Justice, Understanding

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “The Journey to the East: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

• Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, Understanding

• I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Understanding, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1959). “Goldmund”

• When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Understanding, Able

• Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Agreement, Understanding, Needs

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.108, Om Books International

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