The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEOpinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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