His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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