Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside 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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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