I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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