When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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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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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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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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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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