To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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