No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The river is everywhere.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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