{"quotes":[{"text":"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["beautiful","extraordinary","free","hermann-hesse","hesse","inspirational","life","metamorphoses","pictor-s"],"id":38639,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"...And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","intellect","restlessness","siddhartha","soul"],"id":102037,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["dreams","hesse","restlessness","siddhartha","soul"],"id":113575,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","knowledge","siddhartha","unity","world"],"id":117416,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his wayforward, no matter where it led. The realization shook me profoundly, it was the fruit of this experience. I had often speculated with images of the future, dreamed of roles that I might be assigned, perhaps as poet orprophet or painter, or something similar. \tAll that was futile. I did not exist to write poems, to preach or topaint, neither I nor anyone else. All of that was incidental. Each man had only one genuine vocation--to findthe way to himself. He might end up as poet or madman, as prophet or criminal--that was not his affair,ultimately it was of no concern. His task was to discover his own destiny--not an arbitrary one--and live it outwholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, aflight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["demian","destiny","enlightement","hesse","man"],"id":125593,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["buddhism","east","hesse","west"],"id":133282,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","knowledge","learning","self","siddhartha"],"id":142595,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["alone","crazy","hesse","lost","mountains","sanity","solitude","wilderness"],"id":155323,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["chain","hesse","siddhartha","world"],"id":196996,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","life","self","siddhartha","thought"],"id":220844,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}