Hermann Hesse

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

- Hermann Hesse