God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Seriousness 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.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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