To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSEWe are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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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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