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.
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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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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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