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.
HERMANN HESSEI live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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