Your soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSEThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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