Hermann Hesse Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

• He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Given, Greater

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

• The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dancing, Substance, World

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

• You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Overthinking, Ideas

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

• What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Would Be, Literature

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

• Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

  Hermann Hesse

  Long, Moments, Eternity

• You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Men, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

• If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Night, Glasses

• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Freedom, Ideas, Literature

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