You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
HERMANN HESSENot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Solitude is independence.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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 live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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 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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