Who is Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] (listen); 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.Life and work
Family background
Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German Empire. His grandparents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. His grandfather Hermann Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar and a Malayalam-English dictionary, and also contrib...
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Hermann Hesse Poems
- In Weihnachtszeiten
In Weihnachtszeiten reis' ich gern
Und bin dem Kinderjubel fern
Und geh' in Wald und Schnee allein.
Und manchmal, doch nicht jedes Jahr, ... - In Secret We Thirst
Graceful, spiritual,
with the gentleness of arabesques
our life is similar
to the existence of fairies ... - Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever. ... - Without You
My Pillow gazes upon me at night
Empty as a gravestone;
I never thought it would be so bitter
To be alone, ... - Across The Fields
Across the sky, the clouds move,
Across the fields, the wind,
Across the fields the lost child
Of my mother wanders. ...
Top 10 most used topics by Hermann Hesse
Night 9 Alone 5 Death 4 Cold 4 Love 4 Home 4 Never 4 I Love You 4 Wind 4 Human 3Hermann Hesse Quotes
- To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
- Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
- It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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Brodielaneokon: “if i know what love is, it is because of you.” —hermann hesseTrainingmindful: “you know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. well, then, love your suffering. do not resist it, do not flee from it. it is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. hermann hesse
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Gurglehurdle: 12. the true vocation of man is to find his way for himself. hermann hesse
Ryanholiday: "if you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself." — hermann hesse
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