A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSELife 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
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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You 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.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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