Hermann Hesse Quotes

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

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

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.