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.
HERMANN HESSEA tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how 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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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