Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it… — Hermann Hesse

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.

In the original German

Einseitig ist alles, was mit Gedanken gedacht und mit Worten gesagt werden kann, alles einseitig, alles halb, alles entbehrt der Ganzheit, des Runden, der Einheit.

Siddhartha · 1922
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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.
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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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