J.F Hermann Quotes

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

Love must not entreat, ' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

Like animals we call to each other, " was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Be aware of too much wisdom!

Most men will not swim before they are able to.

It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.

Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul.

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

desires are not killed by fulfilling them

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

One never reaches home, ' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'Well spoken...

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

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.

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself.