Hermann Hesse Quotes

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.