Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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