Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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