{"author":"Hermann Hesse","author_id":"Hermann+Hesse","total_quotes":289,"quotes":[{"text":"Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["journey","travel"],"id":109,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal ... Because in striving for your goal there are many things you do not see, which are directly in front of your eyes.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["journeys","life-truths","meaning"],"id":1731,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don't doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["healing","hurt","love"],"id":2498,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"...The Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which leading, the old or the young man. Now it seemed to be the young man who showed honour and obedience to the old man, to authority and dignity; now again it was apparently the old man who was required to follow, serve, worship the figure of youth, of beginning, of mirth. And as he watched this at once senseless and significant dream circle, the dreamer felt alternately identical with the old man and the boy, now revering and now revered, now leading, now obeying; and in the course of these pendulum shifts there came a moment in which he was both, was simultaneously Master and small pupil; or rather he stood above both, was the instigator, conceiver, operator, and onlooker of the cycle, this futile spinning race between age and youth.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["age","cyclicality","stages-of-life","the-transcendental-subject","transcendence","youth"],"id":3702,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke an hour later, he felt fresh and calm as though he had slept for days.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["death","reflections","sleep"],"id":5499,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["demian","journey-of-life","self-awareness"],"id":6282,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["wisdom"],"id":7934,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["soul","body","single "],"id":9494,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["destiny","happiness"],"id":10339,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["destiny","fate","fortune","learning-process","meaning","value"],"id":16141,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":289,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}