The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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The river is everywhere.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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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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