The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSENot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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