The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
HERMANN HESSELove 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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