I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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