My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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