Hermann Hesse Quotes

And every human being is precious.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

We're not inherently anything but human.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.