A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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