I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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