Hermann Hesse Quotes

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

He who feels it, knows it more.

My senses tell me hubba.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, “I know how you feel.”

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.