5 Posts found for Author: Hermann Hesse

Our universities fail to guide us down the easiest paths to wisdom… Rather than teaching a sense of awe, they teach the very opposite: counting and measuring over delight, sobriety over enchantment, a rigid hold on scattered individual parts over an affinity for the unified and whole. These are not schools of wisdom, after all, but schools of knowledge, though they take for granted that … [ Read more ]

Author: Hermann Hesse | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Education | Scholarship

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 | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Solitude is the path over which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. Solitude is the path that men most fear.

Author: Hermann Hesse | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

All the good in a man, for which he is praised or loved, is merely good suffering, the right kind, the living kind of suffering, a suffering to the full. The ability to suffer well is more than half of life — indeed, it is all life.

Author: Hermann Hesse | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Life & Society, Meaning, Pain & Suffering

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain linked together by cause and effect.

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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain – that it may perhaps be this is not important – but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the … [ Read more ]

Author: Hermann Hesse | Subject: Uncategorized