Hermann Hesse: “A Flowing River of Faces. . .Which All Came and Disappeared”

Photographers Unknown, The Faces of Man: Photo Set Four

“He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddhartha, instead he saw other faces, many, a long sequence, a flowing river of faces, of hundreds, of thousands, which all came and disappeared, and yet all seemed to be there simultaneously, which all constantly changed and renewed themselves, and which were still all Siddhartha.”

-Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse: “There is No Such Thing as Time”

Artists Unknown, Computer Graphics, Animated Photo Gifs

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?“ That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

—Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha