Thoughts by Hermann Hesse

"Trees" is from Hesse's book Wandering (1920) and is online here: http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Hesse,Hermann/trees.html

The river story is from Siddhartha and is online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500

I think Hesse's output shows many wise insights. Though not a sage, particularly because he was unable to outgrow his attachment to women (or rather, his biological mother), nevertheless I find his combination of poetry and ethics, honesty and his struggle to live wisely, an inspiring example.

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Education

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• nature
• thinking
• wisdom
• solitude
• life
• causation
• atheism
• freedom
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• reason
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• Hesse
• Siddhartha
• Wandering