Hermann Hesse Quotes

The world is not outside you.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.