More quotes by Hermann Hesse

"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
"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."
"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest."