Hermann HesseThinkers

Affirmation is the idea of saying yes to everything and shirking nothing: so just as one says yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so to ought one to say yes to the filth and the nausea, for everything is within one: gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Awakeness is one who with conscious knowledge and understanding can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul.

Beauty brings not happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Birth is always the separation from the all, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the all requires the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the all.

The Body is singular, the soul multiple.

The Body is always single, the soul, never.

But peace is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

Character always seem sinister to the rest.

Courage is a quality that always makes its possessor seem sinister to the rest.