The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEYouth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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