Hermann Hesse on Truth
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Hermann Hesse, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Hermann Hesse, entry #238865: "I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"
Attributed to Hermann Hesse, entry #166452: "Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself"
7 Quotes by Hermann Hesse on Truth
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"
"Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself"
"How alien our country has become from her noblest Province and how unfaithful to that Province's spirit; how far body and soul, ideal and reality have moved apart in our country; how little they know about each other, or want to know."
"All this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities."
"A true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all of the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine."
"Even centuries ago the members and historians of our League recognised and courageously faced up to this difficulty. One of the greatest of them gave expression to it in an immortal verse: He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate people will not believe What they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe. Will give little credence to my song. p. 8"
"Instead of playing his part as truly and honestly as he could, the German intellectual has constantly rebelled against the word and against reason and courted wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were never pressed home to reality, has left the greater part of its practical gifts to decay. None of us intellectuals is at home in reality. We are strange to it and hostile. That is why the part played by intellect even in our own German reality, in our history and politics and public opinion, has be so lamentable a one."