When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSEMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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