Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSETheory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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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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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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