When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Solitude is independence.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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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 deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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