Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
HERMANN HESSEEach man’s life represents a road toward himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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 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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Solitude is independence.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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