More quotes by Hermann Hesse

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
"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."
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."