Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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