Hermann Hesse Quotes

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

I once saved someone from drowning.

To live is to think.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.

Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies.

Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.