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.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Solitude is independence.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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