Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom"
Steppenwolf quotes
Steppenwolf
5 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life"
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