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.
HERMANN HESSESeriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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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 bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Solitude is independence.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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