In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEAnd 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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 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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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