I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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