People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSEEach man’s life represents a road toward himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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