Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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